Land System Science

Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020.
The increasing deforestation and fires since 2019 raises concerns about the irreversible destruction of the Brazilian Amazon. Our goal …
Benjamin Jakimow, Matthias Baumann, Caroline Salomão, Hugo Bendini, Patrick Hostert
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Shocks to food systems in times of conflict
Armed conflicts have devastating humanitarian consequences, both direct and indirect. A crucial yet overlooked outcome is the …
Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann
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Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco
Theories of frontier expansion in the last four decades have been mostly shaped by studies of state-driven smallholder colonization. …
Yann le Polain de Waroux, Matthias Baumann, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Gregorio Gavier Pizarro, Javier Godar, Tobias Kuemmerle, Robert Müller, Fabricio Vázquez, José Norberto Volante, Patrick Meyfroidt
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The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco
South America’s tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and …
Verena Fehlenberg, Matthias Baumann, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, María Piquer-Rodríguez, Gregorio Gavier Pizarro, Tobias Kuemmerle
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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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The impacts of warfare and armed conflict on land systems
Land-use decisions can change abruptly in response to shocks, and warfare and armed conflicts are among the most drastic and globally …
Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle
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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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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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