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Overview

Tobias Kuemmerle is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research is positioned within the broad field of environmental science, where they have contributed extensively across various subfields and topics.

The main subfields of study for Kuemmerle include global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. Their work spans multiple interconnected themes, emphasizing the interactions between human activities and natural ecosystems.

Kuemmerle's research topics cover several important areas:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy

Their recent publications include:

  • "Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation," 2022, Science
  • "Ten facts about land systems for sustainability," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe," 2020, Diversity and Distributions

Kuemmerle collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Matthias Baumann
  • Patrick Meyfroidt
  • Arash Ghoddousi
  • Ana Buchadas
  • Benjamin Bleyhl

Their work has been published in a range of outlets, with a concentration of studies appearing in:

  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Biological Conservation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use mapping and monitoring

    Neha P. Joshi;Matthias Baumann;Andrea Ehammer;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward

    Jörn Fischer;David James Abson;Van Butsic;Van Butsic;M Jahi Chappell;M Jahi Chappell

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Rewilding complex ecosystems.

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Laetitia M. Navarro;Néstor Fernández

  • Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series.

    Stephan Estel;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Camilo Alcántara;Christian Levers

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

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

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

  • Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine

    Matthias Baumann;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Marine Elbakidze;Marine Elbakidze;Mutlu Ozdogan

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Challenges for land system science

    Mark D.A. Rounsevell;Bas Pedroli;Karl-Heinz Erb;Marc Gramberger

  • Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes

    Joern Fischer;Tibor Hartel;Tibor Hartel;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle

  • Where are Europe's last primary forests?

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Sabina Burrascano;William S. Keeton;Christian Levers

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

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

  • Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Karlheinz Erb;Patrick Meyfroidt;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller

  • Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Patrick Hostert;Volker C. Radeloff;Sebastian van der Linden

  • Mapping abandoned agriculture with multi-temporal MODIS satellite data

    Camilo Alcantara;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Alexander V. Prishchepov;Volker C. Radeloff

  • A Pixel-Based Landsat Compositing Algorithm for Large Area Land Cover Mapping

    Patrick Griffiths;Sebastian van der Linden;Tobias Kuemmerle;Patrick Hostert

  • Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

    Laura Kehoe;Laura Kehoe;Alfredo Romero-Muñoz;Ester Polaina;Lyndon Estes;Lyndon Estes

  • 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

    Alexander V Prishchepov;Alexander V Prishchepov;Volker C Radeloff;Matthias Baumann;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle

  • A conceptual framework for analysing and measuring land-use intensity

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Martin Rudbeck Jepsen;Tobias Kuemmerle

  • Land cover mapping of large areas using chain classification of neighboring Landsat satellite images

    Jan Knorn;Andreas Rabe;Volker C. Radeloff;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle

  • Land sparing versus land sharing: moving forward.

    J. Fischer;D. J. Abson;V. Butsic;M. J. Chappell

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alexander V. Prishchepov
Alexander V. Prishchepov University of Copenhagen
Patrick Hostert
Patrick Hostert Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Patrick Meyfroidt
Patrick Meyfroidt Université Catholique de Louvain
Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Pieter Johannes Verkerk
Pieter Johannes Verkerk European Forest Institute
Tobias Plieninger
Tobias Plieninger University of Göttingen

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