List of works - Tobias Kuemmerle

A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring

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A conceptual framework for analysing and measuring land-use intensity

scientific article published on October 2013

A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania

scientific article published in 2014

A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses

scientific article published on 16 September 2017

A novel, post‐Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity and abundance on the Eurasian steppe

scientific article published on 14 November 2023

Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

scientific article

Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests

Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union

scientific article published in 2013

Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness

scientific article

Aligning biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in heterogeneous landscapes

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Analytical solutions to trade-offs between size of protected areas and land-use intensity

scientific article

Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes

scientific article published in 2017

Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure

scientific article

Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe

Assessing differences in connectivity based on habitat versus movement models for brown bears in the Carpathians

article by Elżbieta Ziółkowska et al published 24 March 2016 in Landscape Ecology

Assessing land-use effects on European plant diversity using a biome-specific countryside species-area model

article

Assessing landscape connectivity for large mammals in the Caucasus using Landsat 8 seasonal image composites

scientific article

Assessing niche overlap between domestic and threatened wild sheep to identify conservation priority areas

scientific article

Beyond fangs: beef and soybean trade drive jaguar extinction

scientific article

Bias in the attribution of forest carbon sinks

article

Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

scientific article published in 2017

Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions

scientific article

Carbon emissions from agricultural expansion and intensification in the Chaco.

scientific article

Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

scientific article published on October 2013

Challenges for land system science

Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Changes in the grasslands of the Caucasus based on Cumulative Endmember Fractions from the full 1987–2019 Landsat record

scientific article published in 2021

Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006

article

Changing patterns of conflict between humans, carnivores and crop-raiding prey as large carnivores recolonize human-dominated landscapes

scientific article published in May 2022

Characterizing European cultural landscapes: Accounting for structure, management intensity and value of agricultural and forest landscapes

Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series

scholarly article

Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe

Connectivity or isolation? Identifying reintroduction sites for multiple conservation objectives for wisents in Poland

scientific article

Consequences of nuclear accidents for biodiversity and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Henrik von Wehrden et al published 3 February 2012 in Conservation Letters

Conservation Telecouplings

scientific article

Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation

scholarly article by Van Butsic et al published November 2015 in Biological Conservation

Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes

scholarly article published in 2012

Conservation: Limits of Land Sparing

scientific article published in Science

Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians

scientific article published on 30 April 2008

Crying wolf: limitations of predator-prey studies need not preclude their salient messages

scientific article published in July 2016

Current European policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity

scholarly article by Sabina Burrascano et al published September 2016 in Biological Conservation

Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia

scientific article

Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012

scientific article

Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism

scientific article published on 13 February 2009

Differences in production, carbon stocks and biodiversity outcomes of land tenure regimes in the Argentine Dry Chaco

scientific article

Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

scientific article published on 9 September 2022

Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions

Drivers of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe

Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe

scientific article published in 2014

Drivers, constraints and trade-offs associated with recultivating abandoned cropland in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

scientific article published in March 2016

Ecoregion-wide, multi-sensor biomass mapping highlights a major underestimation of dry forests carbon stocks

scholarly article

Effectiveness of protected areas in the Caucasus Mountains in preventing rangeland degradation

scientific article published on 12 November 2024

Effectiveness of protected areas in the Western Caucasus before and after the transition to post-socialism

Effects of different matrix representations and connectivity measures on habitat network assessments

scientific article published in 2014

Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Effects of past and future land conversions on forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

European Bison habitat in the Carpathian Mountains

scientific article

European bison conservation must move beyond entrenched debates – response to Kerley et al. (2020)

scientific article

Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

scientific article published in 2015

Exploring long-term trends in land use change and aboveground human appropriation of net primary production in nine European countries

article

Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007

scientific article

Finite Land Resources and Competition

article

Fires scorching Bolivia's Chiquitano forest

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change

scientific article published in May 2014

Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco.

scientific article published in February 2017

Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites

scientific article published in August 2014

Forest management impacts on capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) habitat distribution and connectivity in the Carpathians

scientific article published in 2016

Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets

scientific article

Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration

scientific article published on 27 February 2024

From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals

scientific article published in 2018

Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics

scientific article published in September 2022

Future land use effects on the connectivity of protected area networks in southeastern Spain

Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity

scientific article published in 2015

Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas

Habitat destruction and overexploitation drive widespread declines in all facets of mammalian diversity in the Gran Chaco

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Habitat loss and overhunting synergistically drive the extirpation of jaguars from the Gran Chaco

scientific article

Habitat metrics based on multi‐temporal Landsat imagery for mapping large mammal habitat

scientific article

Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland

scientific article published in 2014

Hot moments for biodiversity conservation

article published in 2012

Hotspots of land use change in Europe

article by Tobias Kuemmerle et al published 1 June 2016 in Environmental Research Letters

How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians

scientific article published in June 2009

Identifying pathways to visions of future land use in Europe

Impacts of surface gold mining on land use systems in Western Ghana

scientific article

Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test

scientific article

Incorporating anthropogenic effects into trophic ecology: predator-prey interactions in a human-dominated landscape

scientific article published in September 2015

Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco

scientific article

Integrated framework for stakeholder participation: Methods and tools for identifying and addressing human–wildlife conflicts

scientific article

Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes

scientific article published in 2021

Invasion of glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum) and native forest loss in the Sierras Chicas of Córdoba, Argentina

scientific article published on 16 March 2010

Land Change in the Carpathian Region Before and After Major Institutional Changes

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward

Land cover mapping of large areas using chain classification of neighboring Landsat satellite images

scientific article published in May 2009

Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

article by Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al published 13 April 2014 in Nature Climate Change

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

scientific article

Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites

scientific article

Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Landsat-based mapping of post-Soviet land-use change to assess the effectiveness of the Oksky and Mordovsky protected areas in European Russia

scientific article published in 2013

Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems

scientific article

Legacies of 19th century land use shape contemporary forest cover

scientific article published in September 2015

Legacy effects of past land use on current biodiversity in a low-intensity farming landscape in Transylvania (Romania)

scientific article published in 2016

Linking disturbance history to current forest structure to assess the impact of disturbances in tropical dry forests

scientific article published in 2023

Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America

scientific article published in October 2024

Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

Long-term land-cover/use change in a traditional farming landscape in Romania inferred from pollen data, historical maps and satellite images

Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Mapping abandoned agriculture with multi-temporal MODIS satellite data

scientific article published in 2012

Mapping agricultural land abandonment from spatial and temporal segmentation of Landsat time series

scientific article published in 2018

Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes

Mapping connectivity and conflict risk to identify safe corridors for the Persian leopard

scientific article

Mapping continuous fields of tree and shrub cover across the Gran Chaco using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-1 data

scientific article published in 2018

Mapping cropland-use intensity across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series

Mapping extinction debt highlights conservation opportunities for birds and mammals in the South American Chaco

scientific article published in 2018

Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series

scholarly article

Mapping global land system archetypes

scholarly article published in 2013

Mapping seasonal European bison habitat in the Caucasus Mountains to identify potential reintroduction sites

Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data

Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series

scholarly article

Mapping wood production in European forests

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Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images

scientific article

Middle-range theories of land system change

Modelling avian biodiversity using raw, unclassified satellite imagery

scientific article

Models meet data: Challenges and opportunities in implementing land management in Earth system models.

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Monitoring the invasion of an exotic tree (Ligustrum lucidum) from 1983 to 2006 with Landsat TM/ETM+ satellite data and Support Vector Machines in Córdoba, Argentina

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Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco in the face of deforestation

scientific article published in 2018

Nineteenth-century land-use legacies affect contemporary land abandonment in the Carpathians

scientific article

One size does not fit all: European bison habitat selection across herds and spatial scales

scientific article published in 2018

Partitioning the effects of habitat loss, hunting and climate change on the endangered Chacoan peccary

scientific article published in 2023

Pasture intensification is insufficient to relieve pressure on conservation priority areas in open agricultural markets

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine

Patterns and drivers of scattered tree loss in agricultural landscapes: orchard meadows in Germany (1968-2009).

scientific article published on May 2015

Post-Soviet Land-Use Change Affected Fire Regimes on the Eurasian Steppes

scientific article

Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

scholarly article by Florian Schierhorn et al published December 2013 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

Post-Soviet shifts in fire and grazing regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Post-socialist forest disturbance in the Carpathian border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine

scientific article

Potential habitat connectivity of European bison (Bison bonasus) in the Carpathians

scientific article published in February 2012

Potential impacts of oil and gas development and climate change on migratory reindeer calving grounds across the Russian Arctic

scientific article published in 2014

Predicting potential European bison habitat across its former range ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Prioritizing livestock grazing right buyouts to safeguard Asiatic cheetahs from extinction

scientific article published on 26 October 2022

Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Quasi-experimental methods enable stronger inferences from observational data in ecology

scientific article published in 2017

Rapid declines of large mammal populations after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl

scientific article published in October 2011

Rear‐edge populations are important for understanding climate change risk and adaptation potential of threatened species

scientific article published in 2021

Reconstructing range dynamics and range fragmentation of European bison for the last 8000 years

scientific article published in 2011

Reducing persecution is more effective for restoring large carnivores than restoring their prey

scientific article

Refugee species: which historic baseline should inform conservation planning?

scientific article published in 2012

Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco

Representing composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes: A new typology

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Resource pulses and human–wildlife conflicts: linking satellite indicators and ground data on forest productivity to predict brown bear damages

scientific article published in 2022

Rewilding complex ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Satellite-based habitat monitoring reveals long-term dynamics of deer habitat in response to forest disturbances

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Shocks to food systems in times of conflict

scholarly article

Simulating and delineating future land change trajectories across Europe

Spatial distribution of arable and abandoned land across former Soviet Union countries

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Spatial variation in determinants of agricultural land abandonment in Europe

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

scientific article published in 2022

Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South-South Telecouplings

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The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: A systematic review of the evidence

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The dynamics of beef trade between Brazil and Russia and their environmental implications

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The effect of protected areas on forest disturbance in the Carpathian Mountains 1985-2010.

scientific article

The impacts of warfare and armed conflict on land systems

scientific article published on 8 October 2016

The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina

The potential of historical spy-satellite imagery to support research in ecology and conservation

scientific article published on 19 February 2024

The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco

scientific article

Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco

scientific article published in 2019

Toward Causal Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data: Conflict and Forest Loss in Colombia

scholarly article

Trade-offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes

scientific article

Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions

scientific article

Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands

scholarly article

Underlying Drivers and Spatial Determinants of post-Soviet Agricultural Land Abandonment in Temperate Eastern Europe

Understanding spatial patterns of poaching pressure using ranger logbook data to optimize future patrolling strategies

scientific article published in 2022

Understanding the distribution of cattle production systems in the South American Chaco

scientific article

Understanding unexpected reintroduction outcomes: Why aren't European bison colonizing suitable habitat in the Carpathians?

scientific article published in March 2016

Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high‐conservation‐value forests

scientific article published on 9 November 2021

Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations

scientific article

Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing

scientific article published on April 2015

Using the Landsat record to detect forest-cover changes during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the temperate zone of European Russia

scientific article published in 2012

Where are Europe’s last primary forests?

article by Francesco Maria Sabatini et al published 24 May 2018 in Diversity and Distributions

Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco

scholarly article

Widespread habitat for Europe's largest herbivores, but poor connectivity limits recolonization

scientific article published on 11 January 2023

Zoning has little impact on the seasonal diel activity and distribution patterns of wild boar (<i>Sus scrofa</i>) in an UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

scientific article published in 2021

List of works by Tobias Kuemmerle

A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring

A conceptual framework for analysing and measuring land-use intensity

A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania

A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses

A novel, post‐Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity and abundance on the Eurasian steppe

Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests

Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union

Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness

Aligning biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in heterogeneous landscapes

Analytical solutions to trade-offs between size of protected areas and land-use intensity

Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes

Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure

Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe

Assessing differences in connectivity based on habitat versus movement models for brown bears in the Carpathians

Assessing land-use effects on European plant diversity using a biome-specific countryside species-area model

Assessing landscape connectivity for large mammals in the Caucasus using Landsat 8 seasonal image composites

Assessing niche overlap between domestic and threatened wild sheep to identify conservation priority areas

Beyond fangs: beef and soybean trade drive jaguar extinction

Bias in the attribution of forest carbon sinks

Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions

Carbon emissions from agricultural expansion and intensification in the Chaco.

Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

Challenges for land system science

Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco

Changes in the grasslands of the Caucasus based on Cumulative Endmember Fractions from the full 1987–2019 Landsat record

Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006

Changing patterns of conflict between humans, carnivores and crop-raiding prey as large carnivores recolonize human-dominated landscapes

Characterizing European cultural landscapes: Accounting for structure, management intensity and value of agricultural and forest landscapes

Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series

Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion

Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe

Connectivity or isolation? Identifying reintroduction sites for multiple conservation objectives for wisents in Poland

Consequences of nuclear accidents for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Conservation Telecouplings

Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation

Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation

Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes

Conservation: Limits of Land Sparing

Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians

Crying wolf: limitations of predator-prey studies need not preclude their salient messages

Current European policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity

Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia

Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012

Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism

Differences in production, carbon stocks and biodiversity outcomes of land tenure regimes in the Argentine Dry Chaco

Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions

Drivers of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe

Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe

Drivers, constraints and trade-offs associated with recultivating abandoned cropland in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Ecoregion-wide, multi-sensor biomass mapping highlights a major underestimation of dry forests carbon stocks

Effectiveness of protected areas in the Caucasus Mountains in preventing rangeland degradation

Effectiveness of protected areas in the Western Caucasus before and after the transition to post-socialism

Effects of different matrix representations and connectivity measures on habitat network assessments

Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Effects of past and future land conversions on forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco

European Bison habitat in the Carpathian Mountains

European bison conservation must move beyond entrenched debates – response to Kerley et al. (2020)

Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

Exploring long-term trends in land use change and aboveground human appropriation of net primary production in nine European countries

Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007

Finite Land Resources and Competition

Fires scorching Bolivia's Chiquitano forest

Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change

Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco.

Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites

Forest management impacts on capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) habitat distribution and connectivity in the Carpathians

Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets

Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration

From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals

Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics

Future land use effects on the connectivity of protected area networks in southeastern Spain

Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity

Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas

Habitat destruction and overexploitation drive widespread declines in all facets of mammalian diversity in the Gran Chaco

Habitat loss and overhunting synergistically drive the extirpation of jaguars from the Gran Chaco

Habitat metrics based on multi‐temporal Landsat imagery for mapping large mammal habitat