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Drivers of land-use change
Legacies of 19th century land use shape contemporary forest cover
Historic land use can exert strong land-use legacies, i.e., long-lasting effects on ecosystems, but the importance of land-use …
Catalina Munteanu
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Nicholas S. Keuler
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Daniel Muller
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Pal Balazs
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Monika Dobosz
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Patrick Griffiths
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Lubos Halada
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Dominik Kaim
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Geza Kiraly
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Eva Konkoly-Gyuro
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Jacek Kozak
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Juraj Lieskovsky
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Krzysztof Ostafin
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Katarzyna Ostapowicz
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Oleksandra Shandra
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Volker C. Radeloff
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DOI
Mapping wood production in European forests
Wood production is an important forest use, impacting a range of other ecosystem services. However, information on the spatial patterns …
Pieter J. Verkerk
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Christian Levers
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Marcus Lindner
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Ruben Valbuena
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Peter H. Verburg
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Sergey Zudin
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DOI
Patterns and drivers of scattered tree loss in agricultural landscapes: orchard meadows in Germany (1968-2009)
Scattered trees support high levels of farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, but they are threatened …
Tobias Plieninger
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Christian Levers
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Martin Mantel
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Augusta Costa
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Harald Schaich
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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DOI
Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010
Land use is a cornerstone of human civilization, but also intrinsically linked to many global sustainability challenges—from climate …
Martin Rudbeck Jepsen
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Daniel Muller
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Karlheinz Erb
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Peter H. Verburg
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Helmut Haberl
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Jens Peter Vesterager
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Maja Andric
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Marc Antrop
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Gunnar Austrheim
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Ismo Bjorn
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Alberte Bondeau
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Matthias Burgi
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Jessica Bryson
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Gilles Caspar
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Louis F. Cassar
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Elisabeth Conrad
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Pavel Chromy
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Vidmantas Daugirdas
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Veerle Van Eetvelde
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Ramon Elena-Rossello
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Urs Gimmi
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Zita Izakovicova
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Vit Jancak
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Ulf Jansson
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Drago Kladnik
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Jacek Kozak
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Eva Konkoly-Gyuro
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Fridolin Krausmann
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Ulo Mander
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John McDonagh
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Jaan Parn
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Maria Niedertscheider
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Olgerts Nikodemus
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Katarzyna Ostapowicz
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Marta Perez-Soba
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Teresa Pinto-Correia
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Gintaras Ribokas
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Mark Rounsevell
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Despoina Schistou
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Claude Schmit
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Theano S. Terkenli
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Aud M. Tretvik
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Piotr Trzepacz
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Angheluta Vadineanu
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Ariane Walz
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Edvin Zhllima
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Anette Reenberg
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Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe
Forests provide humankind with essential raw materials and the demand for these materials is increasing. Further expanding forestry …
Christian Levers
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Pieter J. Verkerk
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Daniel Muller
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Peter H. Verburg
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Van Butsic
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Pedro J. Leitao
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Marcus Lindner
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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DOI
Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007
Long-term studies of land system change can help providing insights into the relative importance of underlying drivers of change. Here, …
Maria Niedertscheider
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Daniel Muller
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Karl-Heinz Erb
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Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change
Humans have altered land cover for centuries, and land-cover change is a main component of global change. Land use transition …
Catalina Munteanu
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Martin Boltiziar
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Van Butsic
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Urs Gimmi
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Lubos Halada
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Dominik Kaim
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Geza Kiraly
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Eva Konkoly-Gyuro
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Jacek Kozak
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Juraj Lieskovsky
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Matej Mojses
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Daniel Muller
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Krzystof Ostafin
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Katarzyna Ostapowicz
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Oleksandra Shandra
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Premysl Stych
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Sarah Walker
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Volker C. Radeloff
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DOI
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
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
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Volker C. Radeloff
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Matthias Baumann
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Daniel Muller
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Land-cover change and human population trends in the greater Serengeti ecosystem from 1984–2003
The growth of human populations around protected areas accelerates land conversion and isolation, negatively impacting biodiversity and …
Anna Bond Estes
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Hadas Kushnir
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Volker Christian Radeloff
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Herman Henry Shugart
DOI
Prices, Land Tenure Institutions, and Geography: A Matching Analysis of Farmland Abandonment in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
This paper uses remote sensing data from 1989 to 2000 to examine the impacts of price liberalization, land tenure, and biophysical …
Jennifer Alix-Garcia
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Volker C. Radeloff
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