Land-Use Change

New paper out in Sustainability Sciences
New paper out, stemming from my involvement in the Postdoc researcher group at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Transformations in HUman Environment Systems (https://www.iri-thesys.org). This is the outcome of a surve we did at the KOSMOS conference at Humboldt-University in 2019.
Matthias Baumann
Jan 16, 2023 1 min read Publication
Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed …
Florence Pendrill, Toby A. Gardner, Patrick Meyfroidt, U. Martin Persson, Justin Adams, Tasso Azevedo, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Matthias Baumann, Philip G. Curtis, Veronique De Sy, Rachael Garrett, Javier Godar, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Matthew C. Hansen, Robert Heilmayr, Martin Herold, Tobias Kuemmerle, Michael J. Lathuillière, Vivian Ribeiro, Alexandra Tyukavina, Mikaela J. Weisse, Chris West
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New paper out in Environmental Research Letters
In a new paper in Environmental Research Letters we present the most comprehensive reconstruction of land-use change in the Chaco for the past 35 years. In addition, we present a new way of translating time series of land cover change into systemic metrics, that allow for a more processed-based understanding of frontier expansion in modern commodity frontiers.
Matthias Baumann
Sep 8, 2022 3 min read Publication
New paper out in Environmental Research Letters
Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more …
Matthias Baumann, N. Ignacio Gasparri, Ana Buchadas, Julian Oeser, Patrick Meyfroidt, Christian Levers, Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Daniel Muller, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers
Tropical deforestation is a main driver of the global biodiversity crisis. Impact assessments typically focus on species’ …
asunción Semper-Pascual, Julieta Decarre, Matthias Baumann, Juan M. Busso, Micaela Camino, Bibiana Gómez-Valencia, Tobias Kuemmerle
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