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Forest disturbance
Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites
Detailed knowledge of forest cover dynamics is crucial for many applications from resource management to ecosystem service assessments. …
Patrick Griffiths
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Matthias Baumann
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Volker C. Radeloff
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Ioan V. Abrudan
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Juraj Lieskovsky
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Catalina Munteanu
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Katarzyna Ostapowicz
,
Patrick Hostert
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DOI
Forest restitution and protected area effectiveness in post-socialist Romania
The effectiveness of protected areas can diminish during times of pronounced socio-economic and institutional change. Our goals were to …
Jan Knorn
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Volker C. Radeloff
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Alina Szabo
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Marcel Mindrescu
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William S. Keeton
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Ioan Abrudan
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Patrick Griffiths
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Vladimir Gancz
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Patrick Hostert
DOI
Using annual time-series of Landsat images to assess the effects of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The increasing availability of the Landsat image archive and the development of approaches to make full use of these data provide novel …
Patrick Griffiths
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Robert E. Kennedy
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Ioan V. Abrudan
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Jan Knorn
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Patrick Hostert
DOI
Using Landsat imagery to map forest change in southwest China in response to the national logging ban and ecotourism development
Forest cover change is one of the most important land cover change processes globally, and old-growth forests continue to disappear …
Jodi S. Brandt
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Haomin Li
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Guopeng Ren
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Jianguo Zhu
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Volker C. Radeloff
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DOI
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
The political breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides a rare case of drastic changes in social and economic conditions, and as …
Matthias Baumann
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Mutlu Ozdogan
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Kelly J. Wendland
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Elena Esipova
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Volker C. Radeloff
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DOI
Carbon implications of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The collapse of socialism in 1989 triggered a phase of institutional restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Several countries …
P. Olofsson
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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P. Griffiths
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Jan Knorn
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A. Baccini
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V. Gancz
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V. Blujdea
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R. A. Houghton
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I. V. Abrudan
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C. E. Woodcock
DOI
Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine
Land use is a critical factor in the global carbon cycle, but land-use effects on carbon fluxes are poorly understood in many regions. …
Tobias Kuemmerle
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Pontus Olofsson
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Oleh Chaskovskyy
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Matthias Baumann
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Katarzyna Ostapowicz
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Curtis E. Woodcock
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Richard A. Houghton
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Patrick Hostert
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William S. Keeton
,
Volker C. Radeloff
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
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
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