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