Post-Soviet land-use change

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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Effectiveness of protected areas in the Western Caucasus before and after the transition to post-socialism
Economic and social transition periods can have strong negative effects for the environment and for wildlife. The collapse of the …
Eugenia Bragina, Volker C. Radeloff, Matthias Baumann, Kelly J. Wendland, Tobias Kuemmerle, Anna M. Pidgeon
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Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites
Much of the world’s temperate grasslands have been converted to croplands, yet these trends can reverse in some regions. This is …
Patrick Griffiths, Tobias Kuemmerle, Matthias Baumann, Volker C. Radeloff, Ioan V. Abrudan, Juraj Lieskovsky, Catalina Munteanu, Katarzyna Ostapowicz, Patrick Hostert
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Landsat remote sensing of forest windfall disturbance
Knowing if a forest disturbance is caused by timber harvest or a natural event is crucial for carbon cycle assessments, econometric …
Matthias Baumann, Mutlu Ozdogan, Peter T. Wolter, Alexander Krylov, Nadezda Vladimirova, 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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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
The political breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides a rare case of drastic changes in social and economic conditions, and as …
Matthias Baumann, Mutlu Ozdogan, Tobias Kuemmerle, Kelly J. Wendland, Elena Esipova, Volker C. Radeloff
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