Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in nomadic pastoralism in the Soviet Union and China and in severely degraded steppe ecosystems. Steppes form one of the largest biomes on earth. Ecological changes came slowly... Lees meer.

Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in nomadic pastoralism in the Soviet Union and China and in severely degraded steppe ecosystems. Steppes form one of the largest biomes on earth. Ecological changes came slowly... Lees meer.

Steppes form one of the largest biomes. Drastic changes in steppe ecology land use and livelihoods came with the emergence and again with the collapse of communist states. Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in n... Lees meer.