Eastern Europe

The dynamics of beef trade between Brazil and Russia and their environmental implications
Changes in the production or consumption of agricultural commodities in one place can drastically affect land use and the environment …
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Understanding unexpected reintroduction outcomes: Why aren't European bison colonizing suitable habitat in the Carpathians?
Reintroductions are an important tool for re-establishing or reinforcing populations of threatened species, and thus to restore …
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Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets
Forests often rebound from deforestation following industrialization and urbanization, but for many regions our understanding of where …
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Incorporating anthropogenic effects into trophic ecology: predator-prey interactions in a human-dominated landscape
Apex predators perform important functions that regulate ecosystems worldwide. However, little is known about how ecosystem regulation …
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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 …
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Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan
During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha) of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into …
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Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series
Farmland abandonment is a widespread land-use change in temperate regions, due to increasing yields on productive lands, conservation …
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Post-Soviet land-use change effects on large mammals' habitat in European Russia
Land-use change can strongly affect wildlife populations, typically via habitat loss and degradation where land use expands, and also …
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Rapid declines of large mammal populations after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Anecdotal evidence suggests that socioeconomic shocks strongly affect wildlife populations, but quantitative evidence is sparse. The …
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Effects of different matrix representations and connectivity measures on habitat network assessments
Assessing landscape connectivity is important to understand the ecology of landscapes and to evaluate alternative conservation …
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