Remote Sensing

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.

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.

Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more …

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Tropical dry forests and savannas provide important ecosystem services and harbor high biodiversity, yet are globally under pressure …

Land-use is transforming habitats across the globe, thereby threatening wildlife. Large mammals are especially affected because they …

Our goal was to understand the underlying drivers and spatial determinants of agricultural land abandonment following the collapse of …

Knowing if a forest disturbance is caused by timber harvest or a natural event is crucial for carbon cycle assessments, econometric …

The breakdown of socialism caused massive socio-economic and institutional changes that led to substantial agricultural land …

Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to understand the effects of institutional …