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Marc K. Steininger is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with notable publications addressing various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their work encompasses a range of interconnected topics. These include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement

Marc K. Steininger has published research in several academic venues, contributing to journals such as:

  • Science
  • Ecosystem Services
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing

The scientist has coauthored with several colleagues, including:

  • Lourens Poorter
  • Dylan Craven
  • Catarina C. Jakovac
  • Masha T. van der Sande
  • Lucy Amissah

Among the recent papers attributed to Marc K. Steininger are:

  • "Multidimensional tropical forest recovery" (2021) published in Science
  • "Trends in protected area representation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in five tropical countries" (2020) published in Ecosystem Services
  • "An operational automated mapping algorithm for in-season estimation of wheat area for Punjab, Pakistan" (2021) published in International Journal of Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing for biodiversity science and conservation

    Woody Turner;Sacha Spector;Ned Gardiner;Matthew Fladeland

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

    Grady J. Harper;Marc K. Steininger;Compton J. Tucker;Daniel Juhn

  • Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

    Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov;Thomas R. Loveland

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • Global analysis of the protection status of the world’s forests

    Christine B. Schmitt;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Lauren Coad;Alexander Belokurov

  • Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon

    Marc K. Steininger;Compton J. Tucker;John R. G. Townshend;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Total Historical Land-Use Change in Eastern Bolivia: Who, Where, When, and How Much?

    Timothy J. Killeen;Anna Guerra;Miki Calzada;Lisette Correa

  • Reference scenarios for deforestation and forest degradation in support of REDD: a review of data and methods

    Lydia P Olander;Holly K Gibbs;Marc Steininger;Jennifer J Swenson

  • Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

    Lourens Poorter;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;Jarcilene S. de Almeida-Cortez

  • Forest cover change patterns in Myanmar (Burma) 1990-2000.

    Peter Leimgruber;Daniel S. Kelly;Marc K. Steininger;Jake Brunner

  • Clearance and Fragmentation of Tropical Deciduous Forest in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

    M. K. Steininger;C. J. Tucker;P. Ersts;T. J. Killeen

  • Thirty Years of Land-cover Change in Bolivia

    Timothy J. Killeen;Veronica Calderon;Liliana Soria;Belem Quezada

  • Subpixel forest cover in central Africa from multisensor, multitemporal data

    Ruth DeFries;Matthew Hansen;Marc Steininger;Ralph Dubayah

  • Using remote sensing to inform conservation status assessment: Estimates of recent deforestation rates on New Britain and the impacts upon endemic birds

    Graeme M. Buchanan;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Guy Dutson;John D. Pilgrim

  • On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Tropical Deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon

    Compton J. Tucker;Marc K. Steininger;John R. G. Townshend;Timothy R. Killeen

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Killeen
Timothy J. Killeen Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Mato Grosso State University
Neil D. Burgess
Neil D. Burgess University of Copenhagen
Luzmila Arroyo
Luzmila Arroyo Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
John R. Townshend
John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park

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