Batnyambuu Dashpurev

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | KIT · Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research

Background Grasslands are essential for providing vital resources in the livestock sector and delivering invaluable ecosystem services such as biodiversity and soil carbon (C) sequestration. Despite their critical importance, these ecosystems face escalating threats from human disturbances, human degradation, and climate change, compromising their...

The mountain pasture "Bunnenkopfalm" in the German Alps shows a strong grazing-induced increase in SOC stock of ca. 2 t per hectar and year.

Grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) is a key variable to measure grassland productivity, and accurate assessment of AGB is important for optimizing grassland resource management and understanding carbon, water, and energy fluxes. Current approaches on large scales such as the Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem often combine field measurements with optical...

Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) and aboveground biomass (AGB) are critically important for monitoring grassland degradation, and their accurate estimation can be used as key proxies for assessing land degradation. The main purpose of this study was to estimate the FVC and AGB in the eastern Mongolian steppe using remote sensing and machine learni...

Low accuracy of global land cover (LC) products at local and regional scales is concerning, because of its huge impact on downstream applications. Therefore, developing a method for high accuracy LC maps at local and regional scale is of utmost importance. Taking Mongolia as a case study, we proposed a simple, fast, and accurate method to produce a...

Land degradation is a major environmental and social issue in temperate steppes. It is commonly determined from vegetation cover using remote sensing techniques. Steppes in eastern Mongolia are subject to resource extraction activities, such as mining and oil extraction, which affect land degradation. Recent technological progress in remote sensing...

Information on the spatial distribution of human disturbance is important for assessing and monitoring land degradation. In the Eastern Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem, one of the major driving factors of human-induced land degradation is the expansion of road networks mainly due to intensifications of oil exploration and exploitation. So far, neither t...