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Drivers of land-use change
Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine
Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. …
Matthias Baumann
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Marine Elbakidze
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Mutlu Ozdogan
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Volker C. Radeloff
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Nicholas S. Keuler
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Alexander V. Prishchepov
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Ivan Kruhlov
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Patrick Hostert
DOI
Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl
Land use change is a principal force and inherent element of global environmental change, threatening biodiversity, natural ecosystems, …
Patrick Hostert
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Alexander Prishchepov
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Anika Sieber
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Eric F. Lambin
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Volker C. Radeloff
DOI
Farm Size and Land Use Pattern Changes in Postsocialist Poland
The postsocialist transition resulted in widespread structural change in Polish agriculture, but fine-scale assessments of how these …
Peter Dannenberg
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Causes of Cropland Abandonment During the Post-socialist Transition in Southern Romania
We analyzed the causes of cropland abandonment in Argeş County, Romania, after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Cropland changes …
Daniel Muller
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism
Forest use can increase substantially during periods of societal change, but it is unclear how harvesting rates differ among different …
Tobias Kuemmerle
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J. Kozak
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Volker C. Radeloff
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Patrick Hostert
DOI
Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007
Illegal logging is a major environmental and economic problem, and exceeds in some countries the amounts of legally harvested timber. …
Tobias Kuemmerle
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Oleh Chaskovskyy
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Jan Knorn
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Volker C. Radeloff
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Ivan Kruhlov
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William S. Keeton
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Patrick Hostert
DOI
Geomatics-based characterization of spatial and temporal trends in heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands of Northern Greece
The county of Lagadas in northern Greece is typical for heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands embedded within a patchwork of land use …
Achim Roeder
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Joachim Hill
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Gabriel del Barrio
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Vasilios P. Papanastasis
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Georgios M. Tsiourlis
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Global Change Research in the Carpathian Mountain Region
The Carpathian Mountains in Europe are a biodiversity hot spot; harbor many relatively undisturbed ecosystems; and are still rich in …
Astrid Bjornsen Gurung
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Anita Bokwa
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Wojciech Chelmicki
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Marine Elbakidze
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Manuela Hirschmugl
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Patrick Hostert
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Pierre Ibisch
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Jacek Kozak
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Elena Matei
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Katarzyna Ostapowicz
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Joanna Pociask-Karteczka
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Lars Schmidt
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Sebastian van der Linden
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Marc Zebisch
DOI
How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians
Forests that encompass the border triangle of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia currently suffer from centuries of inadequate …
Magdalena Main-Knorn
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Patrick Hostert
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Jacek Kozak
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
The transition from command to market-oriented economies drastically affected land ownership and land management in Eastern Europe and …
Daniel Muller
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Marioara Rusu
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Patrick Griffiths
DOI
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