Remote Sensing

Agents of Forest Disturbance in the Argentine Dry Chaco
Forest degradation in the tropics is a widespread, yet poorly understood phenomenon. This is particularly true for tropical and …
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Ecoregion-wide, multi-sensor biomass mapping highlights a major underestimation of dry forests carbon stocks

Tropical dry forests harbor major carbon stocks but are disappearing rapidly across the globe as agriculture expands into them. …

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Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment
Wars are frequent and can affect land use substantially, but the effects of wars can vary greatly depending on their characteristics, …
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Resource pulses and human–wildlife conflicts: linking satellite indicators and ground data on forest productivity to predict brown bear damages
Pulsed resources have prominent effects on community and ecosystem dynamics; however, there is little research on how resource pulses …
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Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology
Droughts are often suspected to increase the risk of violent conflict through agricultural production shocks, and existing studies …
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Toward Causal Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data: Conflict and Forest Loss in Colombia
How does armed conflict influence tropical forest loss? For Colombia, both enhancing and reducing effect estimates have been reported. …
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Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high-conservation-value forests
High-conservation-value forests (HCVFs) are critically important for biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning, but they face …
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Changes in the grasslands of the Caucasus based on Cumulative Endmember Fractions from the full 1987–2019 Landsat record
Grasslands are important for global biodiversity, food security, and climate change analyses, which makes mapping and monitoring of …
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Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series
Forest loss in the tropics affects large areas, but whereas full forest conversions are routinely assessed, forest degradation patters …
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European primary forest database v2.0
Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest …
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