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  1. Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts of socio‐economic shocks on large carnivores
  2. Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems
  3. Mapping human-nature archetypes to guide global biodiversity, food security, and land-use policy
  4. The value of hydroclimatic teleconnections for snow-based seasonal streamflow forecasting in central Asia
  5. Changes in grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian steppe better than climate
  6. Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union
  7. Climatic determinants of the Carpathian treeline and its projected upward shifts in response to climate change
  8. Long-term dynamics of crop water consumption in the irrigated lands of the Amu Darya basin 
  9. Can we estimate farm size from field size? An empirical investigation of the field size to farm size relationship
  10. The Value of Hydroclimatic Teleconnections for Snow-based Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting
  11. Reallocating crops raises crop diversity without changes to field boundaries and farm-level crop composition
  12. Revealing agricultural land ownership concentration with cadastral and company network data
  13. What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot
  14. An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
  15. Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers: A serious game approach
  16. GEMS v1.0: Generalizable Empirical Model of Snow Accumulation and Melt, based on daily snow mass changes in response to climate and topographic drivers
  17. Determinants of changes in harvested area and yields of major crops in China
  18. Heterogeneous effects of weather extremes on different dimensions of poverty in Kyrgyzstan
  19. Land degradation and migration
  20. GEMS v1.0: Generalizable empirical model of snow accumulation and melt based on daily snow mass changes in response to climate and topographic drivers
  21. Exploring the emergence and changing dynamics of a new integrated rice-crawfish farming system in China
  22. Multi-objective spatial optimization to balance trade-offs between farmland bird diversity and potential agricultural net returns
  23. Field-level land-use data reveal heterogeneous crop sequences with distinct regional differences in Germany
  24. Adaptive approaches to REDD+ are needed for countries with high forest cover and low deforestation rates
  25. Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
  26. Post-Soviet changes in cropping practices in the irrigated drylands of the Aral Sea basin
  27. Market proximity and irrigation infrastructure determine farmland rentals in Sichuan Province, China
  28. Research priorities for global food security under extreme events
  29. Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier
  30. Regionalization of climate teleconnections across Central Asian mountains improves the predictability of seasonal precipitation
  31. Comparing the performance of high‐resolution global precipitation products across topographic and climatic gradients of Central Asia
  32. Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa
  33. Machine learning reveals complex effects of climatic means and weather extremes on wheat yields during different plant developmental stages
  34. Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
  35. Market Power in Agricultural Land Markets: Concepts and Empirical Challenges
  36. Proximate Causes of Forest Degradation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Vary in Space and Time
  37. Dynamics of soil organic carbon in the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan under past and future climate and land use
  38. Post-Soviet changes in irrigated crop production in the Amu Darya Basin
  39. Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a South American deforestation hotspot
  40. Landsat time series reveal simultaneous expansion and intensification of irrigated dry season cropping in Southeastern Turkey
  41. Driving factors of direct greenhouse gas emissions from China’s pig industry from 1976 to 2016
  42. Quantifying the soil erosion legacy of the Soviet Union
  43. Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity
  44. Decreasing labor intensity in agriculture and the accessibility of major cities shape the rural population decline in postsocialist Russia
  45. Abandonment and Recultivation of Agricultural Lands in Slovakia—Patterns and Determinants from the Past to the Future
  46. Sustainable farmers, deficient State? Self-reported agricultural sustainability in the Argentine Chaco region
  47. Framing the search for a theory of land use
  48. Land-system science to support achieving the sustainable development goals
  49. Spatially varying impacts of climate change on wheat and barley yields in Kazakhstan
  50. Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia
  51. Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion
  52. Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure
  53. Spatial determinants and underlying drivers of land-use transitions in European Russia from 1770 to 2010
  54. Survey-based modeling of land-use intensity in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine dry Chaco
  55. 800 Years of Agricultural Land-use Change in Asian (Eastern) Russia
  56. Post-Soviet Land-Use Change Affected Fire Regimes on the Eurasian Steppes
  57. Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems
  58. Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
  59. Modeling the spatial distribution of grazing intensity in Kazakhstan
  60. Synthesizing dam-induced land system change
  61. Revealing the determinants of wheat yields in the Siberian breadbasket of Russia with Bayesian networks
  62. Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production
  63. The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina
  64. Middle-range theories of land system change
  65. Increasing concentration of major crops in China from 1980 to 2011
  66. Synthesis of agricultural land system change in China over the past 40 years
  67. Modeling and mapping the burden of disease in Kenya
  68. Changes in vegetation phenology on the Mongolian Plateau and their climatic determinants
  69. Uncertainty in establishing forest reference levels and predicting future forest-based carbon stocks for REDD+
  70. Production potential in the “bread baskets” of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  71. Nineteenth-century land-use legacies affect contemporary land abandonment in the Carpathians
  72. The effect of protected areas on forest disturbance in the Carpathian Mountains 1985-2010
  73. Drivers of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe
  74. The dynamics of beef trade between Brazil and Russia and their environmental implications
  75. Underlying Drivers and Spatial Determinants of post-Soviet Agricultural Land Abandonment in Temperate Eastern Europe
  76. Land Change in the Carpathian Region Before and After Major Institutional Changes
  77. Research frontiers in land use science
  78. Identifying pathways to visions of future land use in Europe
  79. Challenges and opportunities for REDD+: A reality check from perspectives of effectiveness, efficiency and equity
  80. The Rise of the Food Risk Society and the Changing Nature of the Technological Treadmill
  81. Hotspots of land use change in Europe
  82. Recultivation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ukraine: Patterns and drivers
  83. Drivers, constraints and trade-offs associated with recultivating abandoned cropland in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
  84. How the Collapse of the Beef Sector in Post-Soviet Russia Displaced Competition for Ecosystem Services to the Brazilian Amazon
  85. Land Use Competition: Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives
  86. Competition for Land-Based Ecosystem Services: Trade-Offs and Synergies
  87. Land Use Competition
  88. Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
  89. Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010
  90. Exploring long-term trends in land use change and aboveground human appropriation of net primary production in nine European countries
  91. Legacies of 19th century land use shape contemporary forest cover
  92. Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006
  93. Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets
  94. Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan
  95. Processes Underlying 50 Years of Local Forest-Cover Change in Yunnan, China
  96. The potential of Russia to increase its wheat production through cropland expansion and intensification
  97. Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change
  98. Exploring the effects of drastic institutional and socio-economic changes on land system dynamics in Germany between 1883 and 2007
  99. Quantifying yield gaps in wheat production in Russia
  100. Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change
  101. Current and future challenges in land-use science
  102. Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe
  103. Analyzing the drivers of tree planting in Yunnan, China, with Bayesian networks
  104. Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
  105. Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union
  106. Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally
  107. A conceptual framework for analysing and measuring land-use intensity
  108. Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data
  109. A framework for modeling payments for ecosystem services with agent-based models, Bayesian belief networks and opinion dynamics models
  110. Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees
  111. The Value of Satellite-Based Active Fire Data for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of REDD+ in the Lao PDR
  112. Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia
  113. 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
  114. The forgotten D: challenges of addressing forest degradation in complex mosaic landscapes under REDD+
  115. Mental health in the slums of Dhaka - a geoepidemiological study
  116. Proximate causes of deforestation in the Bolivian lowlands: an analysis of spatial dynamics
  117. Spatiotemporal modeling of the expansion of mechanized agriculture in the Bolivian lowland forests
  118. A spatial epidemiological analysis of self-rated mental health in the slums of Dhaka
  119. How remote are Vietnam’s ethnic minorities? An analysis of spatial patterns of poverty and inequality
  120. Cropland change in southern Romania: a comparison of logistic regressions and artificial neural networks
  121. The Limits of State-Led Land Reform: An Introduction
  122. Land Fragmentation and Cropland Abandonment in Albania: Implications for the Roles of State and Community in Post-Socialist Land Consolidation
  123. Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
  124. Forecasting hotspots of forest clearing in Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya
  125. Causes of Cropland Abandonment During the Post-socialist Transition in Southern Romania
  126. Reforestation in Central and Eastern Europe After the Breakdown of Socialism
  127. Changing Rural Landscapes in Albania: Cropland Abandonment and Forest Clearing in the Postsocialist Transition
  128. Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
  129. Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation: a Spatial Explanation
  130. An Integrated Socioeconomic Study of Deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990–2000
  131. Issues in spatially explicit statistical land-use/cover change (LUCC) models: Examples from western Honduras and the Central Highlands of Vietnam
  132. From Statistical Data to Spatial Knowledge — informing decision-making in Vietnam
  133. Modelling urbanization patterns in two diverse regions of the world
  134. Effects of postsocialist reforms on land cover and land use in South-Eastern Albania
  135. Tradeoffs between Rural Development Policies and Forest Protection: Spatially Explicit Modeling in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
  136. Stata in Space: Econometric Analysis of Spatially Explicit Raster Data
  137. Agricultural Intensification, Population Growth and Forest Cover Change: Evidence from Spatially Explicit Land Use Modeling in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
  138. Land use dynamics in the central highlands of Vietnam: a spatial model combining village survey data with satellite imagery interpretation
  139. Land use dynamics in the central highlands of Vietnam: a spatial model combining village survey data with satellite imagery interpretation
  140. Simulating the Effects of Rural Development Policies on Land Use: Evidence from Spatially Explicit Modeling in the Central Highlands of Vietnam