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Matthias Bürgi is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields with a particular focus on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these broader areas, Bürgi has made significant contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, general agricultural and biological sciences, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Bürgi's research topics encompass a range of areas including land use and ecosystem services, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, forest management and policy, agricultural economics and policy, sustainable agricultural systems analysis, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, and rangeland management and livestock ecology.

Their recent publications include:

  • "A farmland biodiversity strategy is needed for China" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture" (2022, Global Environmental Change)
  • "Abandonment and Recultivation of Agricultural Lands in Slovakia-Patterns and Determinants from the Past to the Future" (2020, Land)
  • "How to consider history in landscape ecology: patterns, processes, and pathways" (2020, Landscape Ecology)
  • "Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change" (2022, Journal of Land Use Science)

Bürgi has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Peter H. Verburg, Franziska Mohr, Vasco Diogo, Christian Levers, and Julian Helfenstein.

Their work has been published in various academic venues, with multiple publications appearing in Landscape Ecology, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, SSRN Electronic Journal, Global Environmental Change, and the Journal of Land Use Science.

Matthias Bürgi has also contributed to book publications through WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte, where they authored works such as "Zur Geschichte der Wälder im Avers" (2022), "+4 °C und mehr: Schweizer Landschaften im Klimawandel" (2023), and "+4 °C et plus: les paysages suisses face au changement climatique" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Driving forces of landscape change — current and new directions

    Matthias Bürgi;Anna M. Hersperger;Nina Schneeberger

  • The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: a systematic review of the evidence

    Tobias Plieninger;Hélène Draux;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm;Claudia Bieling

  • Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

    Martin Rudbeck Jepsen;Tobias Kuemmerle;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb

  • Containing urban sprawl—Evaluating effectiveness of urban growth boundaries set by the Swiss Land Use Plan

    Maria-Pia Gennaio;Anna M. Hersperger;Matthias Bürgi

  • Going beyond landscape change description: Quantifying the importance of driving forces of landscape change in a Central Europe case study

    Anna M. Hersperger;Matthias Bürgi

  • Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors: Four Conceptual Models

    Anna M. Hersperger;Maria Pia Gennaio;Peter H. Verburg;Matthias Bürgi

  • Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010

    M. J. McGrath;S. Luyssaert;P. Meyfroidt;J. O. Kaplan

  • The abandonment of traditional agricultural landscape in Slovakia - analysis of extent and driving forces

    Juraj Lieskovský;Peter Bezák;Jana Špulerová;Tibor Lieskovský

  • Legacy Effects of Human Land Use: Ecosystems as Time-Lagged Systems

    Matthias Bürgi;Lars Östlund;David J. Mladenoff

  • Climate change and nature conservation in Central European forests: a review of consequences, concepts and challenges

    Mirjam Milad;Harald Schaich;Matthias Bürgi;Werner Konold

  • Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

    Tobias Plieninger;Thanasis Kizos;Claudia Bieling;Laurence Le Dû-Blayo

  • Driving forces and rates of landscape change as a promising combination for landscape change research—An application on the northern fringe of the Swiss Alps

    Nina Schneeberger;Matthias Bürgi;Anna M. Hersperger;K.C. Ewald

  • Integrative methods to study landscape changes

    Matthias Bürgi;Emily W.B Russell

  • Linking increasing drought stress to Scots pine mortality and bark beetle infestations.

    Matthias Dobbertin;Beat Wermelinger;Christof Bigler;Matthias Bürgi

  • Factors and Processes Shaping Land Cover and Land Cover Changes Along the Wisconsin River

    Matthias Bürgi;Monica G. Turner

  • A case study of forest change in the Swiss lowlands

    Matthias Bürgi

  • Weather and human impacts on forest fires: 100 years of fire history in two climatic regions of Switzerland

    Thomas Zumbrunnen;Thomas Zumbrunnen;Gianni B. Pezzatti;Patricia Menéndez;Patricia Menéndez;Harald Bugmann

  • Processes and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe

    Matthias Bürgi;Claudia Bieling;Kim von Hackwitz;Thanasis Kizos

  • Dominance reduction of species through disturbance—a proposed management principle for central European forests

    Thomas Wohlgemuth;Matthias Bürgi;Christoph Scheidegger;Martin Schütz

  • Three objectives of historical ecology: the case of litter collecting in Central European forests

    Matthias Bürgi;Urs Gimmi

  • Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS): Knowledge for Sustainable Stewardship of Social-ecological Systems Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

    Tobias Plieninger;Thanasis Kizos;Claudia Bieling;Laurence Le Dû-Blayo

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Thomas Wohlgemuth Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Tobias Plieninger
Tobias Plieninger University of Göttingen
Marco Conedera
Marco Conedera Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Felix Kienast
Felix Kienast Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Matthias Dobbertin
Matthias Dobbertin Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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