Abandonment

Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment
Wars are frequent and can affect land use substantially, but the effects of wars can vary greatly depending on their characteristics, …
Johanna Buchner, Van Butsic, He Yin, Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann, Nugzar Zazanashvili, Jared Stapp, Volker C. Radeloff
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Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia
Matthias Baumann, Johannes Kamp, Florian Pötzschner, Benjamin Bleyhl, Andrey Dara, Brett Hankerson, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Florian Schierhorn, Daniel Muller, Norbert Hölzel, Roland Krämer, Ruslan Urazaliyev, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus
Armed conflicts are globally widespread and can strongly influence societies and the environment. However, where and how armed conflicts …
He Yin, Van Butsic, Johanna Buchner, Tobias Kuemmerle, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Matthias Baumann, Eugenia V. Bragina, Hovik Sayadyan, Volker C. Radeloff
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Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series
Much of the world’s temperate grasslands have been converted to croplands, yet these trends can reverse in some regions. This is …
Andrey Dara, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle, Dirk Pflugmacher, Andreas Rabe, Patrick Griffiths, Norbert Hölzl, Johannes Kamp, Martin Freitag, Patrick Hostert
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Underlying drivers and spatial determinants of post-Soviet agricultural land abandonment in temperate Eastern Europe
Our goal was to understand the underlying drivers and spatial determinants of agricultural land abandonment following the collapse of …
Alexander V. Prishchepov, Daniel Muller, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle, Camilo Alcantara, Volker C. Radeloff
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Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia
The breakdown of socialism caused massive socio-economic and institutional changes that led to substantial agricultural land …
Alexander V. Prishchepov, Daniel Muller, Maxim Dubinin, Matthias Baumann, Volker C. Radeloff
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Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data
The demand for agricultural products continues to grow rapidly, but further agricultural expansion entails substantial environmental …
Camilo Alcantara, Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann, Eugenia V. Bragina, Patrick D. Griffiths, Patrick Hostert, Jan Knorn, Daniel Muller, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Florian Schierhorn, Annika Sieber, Volker C. Radeloff
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Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia
Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to understand the effects of institutional …
Alexander V. Prishchepov, Volker C. Radeloff, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle, Maxim Dubinin
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Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine
Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. …
Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle, Marine Elbakidze, Mutlu Ozdogan, Volker C. Radeloff, Nicholas S. Keuler, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Ivan Kruhlov, Patrick Hostert
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