I am the head of the Conservation Biogeography Lab and Professor at the Geography Department of Humboldt University Berlin. I am also affiliated with the IRI THESys.
tobias.kuemmerle@hu-berlin.de
+49 (0) 30 2093 - 9372
Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Room 2'106, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin
Interests
- Land System Science
- Conservation Science
- Spatial Ecology
- Megafauna
Education
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Full Professor at the Geography Department, 2015
Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany)
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Associate Professor at the Geography Department, 2012 - 2015
Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany), funded by the Einstein Foundation
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Researcher at the Geography Department, 2012
Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany)
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Researcher (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), 2011 - 2012
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008 - 2012
Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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PhD, 2003 - 2008
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)
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Diplom in Applied Environmental Sciences, 2003
Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier (Germany)
Papers with the Conservation Biogeography Lab
- Changing Determinants of International Conservation Funding Committed to Major Deforestation Regions in South America
- A novel, post-Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity and abundance on the Eurasian steppe
- Increasing mortality of European bison (Bison bonasus) on roads and railways
- Predicting habitat selection of wolf expanding population in central Europe
- Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat
- Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value
- Partitioning the effects of habitat loss, hunting and climate change on the endangered Chacoan peccary
- Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore
- Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests
- Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade
- Linking disturbance history to current forest structure to assess the impact of disturbances in tropical dry forests
- Priority areas for promoting co-benefits between conservation and the traditional use of mammals and birds in the Chaco
- Widespread habitat for Europe's largest herbivores, but poor connectivity limits recolonization
- Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade
- Priority areas for promoting co-benefits between conservation and the traditional use of mammals and birds in the Chaco
- Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
- Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
- Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
- Agents of Forest Disturbance in the Argentine Dry Chaco
- An Outcome-Oriented, Social-Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness
- Changing patterns of conflict between humans, carnivores and crop-raiding prey as large carnivores recolonize human-dominated landscapes
- Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation
- Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation
- Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
- Ecoregion-wide, multi-sensor biomass mapping highlights a major underestimation of dry forests carbon stocks
- Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry
- Large carnivore range expansion in Iberia in relation to different scenarios of permeability of human‐dominated landscapes
- Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment
- Prioritizing livestock grazing right buyouts to safeguard Asiatic cheetahs from extinction
- Resource pulses and human–wildlife conflicts: linking satellite indicators and ground data on forest productivity to predict brown bear damages
- Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
- The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers
- Toward Causal Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data: Conflict and Forest Loss in Colombia
- Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world's tropical dry woodlands
- Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands
- Understanding spatial patterns of poaching pressure using ranger logbook data to optimize future patrolling strategies
- Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high-conservation-value forests
- Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people
- Anthropogenic resistance: accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning
- European primary forest database v2.0
- Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
- Habitat destruction and overexploitation drive widespread declines in all facets of mammalian diversity in the Gran Chaco
- How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?
- Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes
- Post-Soviet shifts in grazing and fire regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe
- Rear‐edge populations are important for understanding climate change risk and adaptation potential of threatened species
- Reducing persecution is more effective for restoring large carnivores than restoring their prey
- Regional matters: On the usefulness of regional land‐cover datasets in times of global change
- Satellite-based habitat monitoring reveals long-term dynamics of deer habitat in response to forest disturbances
- Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe
- Aligning biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in heterogeneous landscapes
- Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure
- Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco
- Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion
- Connectivity or isolation? Identifying reintroduction sites for multiple conservation objectives for wisents in Poland
- Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia
- European bison conservation must move beyond entrenched debates – response to Kerley et al. (2020)
- Framing the search for a theory of land use
- Identifying priority areas for restoring mountain ungulates in the Caucasus ecoregion
- Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
- Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco
- Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites
- Mapping connectivity and conflict risk to identify safe corridors for the Persian leopard
- Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe
- Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes
- Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
- Understanding the distribution of cattle production systems in the South American Chaco
- Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations
- Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
- Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus
- Assessing niche overlap between domestic and threatened wild sheep to identify conservation priority areas
- Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions
- Conservation Telecouplings
- Fires scorching Bolivia's Chiquitano forest
- Habitat loss and overhunting synergistically drive the extirpation of jaguars from the Gran Chaco
- Habitat metrics based on multi‐temporal Landsat imagery for mapping large mammal habitat
- Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems
- Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
- Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes
- Mapping Land System Archetypes to Understand Drivers of Ecosystem Service Risks
- Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images
- Post-Soviet Land-Use Change Affected Fire Regimes on the Eurasian Steppes
- Rewilding complex ecosystems
- Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts
- Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco
- Trade-offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests
- A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses
- Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
- Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe
- Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions
- From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals
- Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas
- Mapping agricultural land abandonment from spatial and temporal segmentation of Landsat time series
- Mapping continuous fields of tree and shrub cover across the Gran Chaco using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-1 data
- Mapping extinction debt highlights conservation opportunities for birds and mammals in the South American Chaco
- Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series
- Middle-range theories of land system change
- Models meet data: Challenges and opportunities in implementing land management in Earth system models
- Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco in the face of deforestation
- One size does not fit all: European bison habitat selection across herds and spatial scales
- Pasture intensification is insufficient to relieve pressure on conservation priority areas in open agricultural markets
- Simulating and delineating future land change trajectories across Europe
- Spatial distribution of arable and abandoned land across former Soviet Union countries
- Spatial variation in determinants of agricultural land abandonment in Europe
- The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina
- Where are Europe’s last primary forests?
- Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness
- Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes
- Assessing land-use effects on European plant diversity using a biome-specific countryside species-area model
- Assessing landscape connectivity for large mammals in the Caucasus using Landsat 8 seasonal image composites
- Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification
- Carbon emissions from agricultural expansion and intensification in the Chaco
- Characterizing European cultural landscapes: Accounting for structure, management intensity and value of agricultural and forest landscapes
- Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012
- Differences in production, carbon stocks and biodiversity outcomes of land tenure regimes in the Argentine Dry Chaco
- Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco
- Land Change in the Carpathian Region Before and After Major Institutional Changes
- Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies
- Long-term land-cover/use change in a traditional farming landscape in Romania inferred from pollen data, historical maps and satellite images
- Nineteenth-century land-use legacies affect contemporary land abandonment in the Carpathians
- Quasi-experimental methods enable stronger inferences from observational data in ecology
- Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco
- The effect of protected areas on forest disturbance in the Carpathian Mountains 1985-2010
- The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco
- Underlying Drivers and Spatial Determinants of post-Soviet Agricultural Land Abandonment in Temperate Eastern Europe
- A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring
- Assessing differences in connectivity based on habitat versus movement models for brown bears in the Carpathians
- Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006
- Crying wolf: limitations of predator-prey studies need not preclude their salient messages
- Current European policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity
- Drivers of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe
- Drivers, constraints and trade-offs associated with recultivating abandoned cropland in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
- Forest management impacts on capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) habitat distribution and connectivity in the Carpathians
- Hotspots of land use change in Europe
- Identifying pathways to visions of future land use in Europe
- Land-Use Competition in the South American Chaco
- Legacy effects of past land use on current biodiversity in a low-intensity farming landscape in Transylvania (Romania)
- Mapping cropland-use intensity across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series
- Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier
- Recultivation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ukraine: Patterns and drivers
- Representing composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes: A new typology
- The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: A systematic review of the evidence
- The dynamics of beef trade between Brazil and Russia and their environmental implications
- The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South-South Telecouplings
- The impacts of warfare and armed conflict on land systems
- Understanding unexpected reintroduction outcomes: Why aren't European bison colonizing suitable habitat in the Carpathians?
- Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
- Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation
- Effectiveness of protected areas in the Western Caucasus before and after the transition to post-socialism
- Effects of past and future land conversions on forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco
- Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research
- Exploring long-term trends in land use change and aboveground human appropriation of net primary production in nine European countries
- Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets
- Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity
- Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland
- Incorporating anthropogenic effects into trophic ecology: predator-prey interactions in a human-dominated landscape
- Legacies of 19th century land use shape contemporary forest cover
- Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan
- Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series
- Mapping seasonal European bison habitat in the Caucasus Mountains to identify potential reintroduction sites
- Mapping wood production in European forests
- Patterns and drivers of scattered tree loss in agricultural landscapes: orchard meadows in Germany (1968-2009)
- Post-Soviet land-use change effects on large mammals' habitat in European Russia
- Rapid declines of large mammal populations after the collapse of the Soviet Union
- Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales
- The relative effectiveness of protected areas, a logging ban, and sacred areas for old-growth forest protection in southwest China
- Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010
- Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing
- A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania
- Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe
- Effects of different matrix representations and connectivity measures on habitat network assessments
- Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007
- Finite land resources and competition
- Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change
- Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites
- Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature
- Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward
- Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Mapping Land Management Regimes in Western Ukraine Using Optical and SAR Data
- Modelling avian biodiversity using raw, unclassified satellite imagery
- Potential impacts of oil and gas development and climate change on migratory reindeer calving grounds across the Russian Arctic
- A conceptual framework for analysing and measuring land-use intensity
- A Pixel-Based Landsat Compositing Algorithm for Large Area Land Cover Mapping
- Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union
- Beyond ‘land sparing versus land sharing’: environmental heterogeneity, globalization and the balance between agricultural production and nature conservation
- Bias in the attribution of forest carbon sinks
- Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally
- Continued loss of temperate old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians despite an increasing protected area network
- Hot moments for biodiversity conservation
- Landsat-based mapping of post-Soviet land-use change to assess the effectiveness of the Oksky and Mordovsky protected areas in European Russia
- Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data
- Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
- Regime shift on the roof of the world: Alpine meadows converting to shrublands in the southern Himalayas
- The Elusive Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity at the Human–Environment Interface
- Analytical solutions to trade-offs between size of protected areas and land-use intensity
- Challenges for land system science
- Consequences of nuclear accidents for biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes
- Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe
- Forest restitution and protected area effectiveness in post-socialist Romania
- Future land use effects on the connectivity of protected area networks in southeastern Spain
- Land-cover change and human population trends in the greater Serengeti ecosystem from 1984–2003
- Mapping abandoned agriculture with multi-temporal MODIS satellite data
- Monitoring the invasion of an exotic tree (Ligustrum lucidum) from 1983 to 2006 with Landsat TM/ETM+ satellite data and Support Vector Machines in Córdoba, Argentina
- Potential habitat connectivity of European bison (Bison bonasus) in the Carpathians
- Prices, Land Tenure Institutions, and Geography: A Matching Analysis of Farmland Abandonment in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
- Reconstructing range dynamics and range fragmentation of European bison for the last 8000 years
- Refugee species: which historic baseline should inform conservation planning?
- Using annual time-series of Landsat images to assess the effects of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
- Using Landsat imagery to map forest change in southwest China in response to the national logging ban and ecotourism development
- 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
- Carbon implications of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
- Comparison and assessment of coarse resolution land cover maps for Northern Eurasia
- Conservation: limits of land sparing
- Cost-effectiveness of strategies to establish a European bison metapopulation in the Carpathians
- Differences in Landsat-based trend analyses in drylands due to the choice of vegetation estimate
- Impacts of surface gold mining on land use systems in Western Ghana
- Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine
- Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine
- Predicting potential European bison habitat across its former range
- Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl
- European Bison habitat in the Carpathian Mountains
- Farm Size and Land Use Pattern Changes in Postsocialist Poland
- Invasion of glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum) and native forest loss in the Sierras Chicas of Córdoba, Argentina
- Causes of Cropland Abandonment During the Post-socialist Transition in Southern Romania
- Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism
- Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007
- Geomatics-based characterization of spatial and temporal trends in heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands of Northern Greece
- Global Change Research in the Carpathian Mountain Region
- How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians
- Land cover mapping of large areas using chain classification of neighboring Landsat satellite images
- Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
- Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
- Reforestation in Central and Eastern Europe After the Breakdown of Socialism
- Using image texture to map farmland field size: a case study in Eastern Europe
- A method to detect and correct single-band missing pixels in Landsat TM and ETM+ data
- Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians
- Post-socialist land use change in the Carpathians
- Adaptation of a grazing gradient concept to heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands using cost surface modelling
- Post-socialist forest disturbance in the Carpathian border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine
- Cross-border comparison of land cover and landscape pattern in Eastern Europe using a hybrid classification technique
- Effectiveness of protected areas in the Carpathians differs among countries in post-socialist times
- Separating grassland and shrub vegetation by multidate pixel-adaptive spectral mixture analysis
- Extension of retrospective datasets using multiple sensors. An approach to radiometric intercalibration of Landsat TM and MSS data
- Extending Time-Series of Satellite Images by Radiometric Intercalibration