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Latitudinal gradients AG has been based their activity on mega-transect approach.
The mega-transect approach is a unique both concept and infrastructure which was developed in Tomsk State University in 2009 for environmental monitoring and landscape-ecological research. The approach can be followed in all seasons, for field sampling, ground-based research on the field stations in combination with remote sensing and ecosystem manipulations. The mega-transect was established at the framework of the concept of Western Siberia as a natural mega-facility, a kind of natural equivalent to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, to attract leading international research groups. The similar transect for research, called the Gradient of Northern Territories, is being launched in Canada. Mega-transect or gradient approach has been unconditionally recognized and approved by the Steering Committee of T-MOSAiC program as one of the key instruments and drivers of its development. In Quebec (on the Arctic Change 2017), a historic docking of two mega-structures: the Siberian latitudinal Mega-transect and the Canadian gradient of the northern territories were carried out. It was decided to conduct joint ground research on a united agreed conceptual and methodological basis. |
West-Siberian latitudinal mega-transect
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Potential Activities
- To develop a unified conceptual, methodological and logistical basis for research and monitoring, relying on the infrastructure of mega-transects/environmental gradients both latitudinal and longitudinal.
- To determine the necessary minimum number of parameters and indicators that should be measured at each transect/gradient station, regardless of its specialization and the breadth of disciplines, to obtain basic comparable data.
- To develop and agree on unified research and monitoring protocols to obtain comparable data.
- To soften, and ideally eliminate the logistical problems of the interaction of mega-structures and stations (sampling and delivery of samples, equipment, etc.)
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