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Ecology and Evolution
USA
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
103
Citations
35517
World Ranking
241
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Volker C. Radeloff is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in the areas of global and planetary change, ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including species distribution and climate change, land use and ecosystem services, remote sensing in agriculture, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, and conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Frequent co-authors of Volker C. Radeloff include:

  • Eugenia Bragina
  • Catalina Munteanu
  • Delgerjargal Uvsh
  • Scott Gehlbach
  • Peter Potapov

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecological Applications

Notable recent papers by Volker C. Radeloff include:

  • Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The global wildland-urban interface, 2023, Nature
  • Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Rural land abandonment is too ephemeral to provide major benefits for biodiversity and climate, 2022, Science Advances
  • Monitoring cropland abandonment with Landsat time series, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • The wildland-urban interface in the United States

    V. C. Radeloff;R. B. Hammer;S. I. Stewart;J. S. Fried

  • Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

    Volker C. Radeloff;David P. Helmers;H. Anu Kramer;Miranda H. Mockrin

  • Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States.

    Joshua J. Lawler;David J. Lewis;Erik Nelson;Andrew J. Plantinga

  • HUMAN INFLUENCE ON CALIFORNIA FIRE REGIMES

    Alexandra D. Syphard;Volker C. Radeloff;Jon E. Keeley;Todd J. Hawbaker

  • The wildland-urban interface in the United States based on 125 million building locations.

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  • Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia

    Alexander V. Prishchepov;Alexander V. Prishchepov;Daniel Müller;Maxim Dubinin;Matthias Baumann

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

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

  • Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy

    Zhe Zhu;Michael A. Wulder;David P. Roy;Curtis E. Woodcock

  • Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value.

    Volker C. Radeloff;Susan I. Stewart;Todd J. Hawbaker;Urs Gimmi

  • Rural and Suburban Sprawl in the U.S. Midwest from 1940 to 2000 and Its Relation to Forest Fragmentation

    Volker C. Radeloff;Roger B. Hammer;Susan I. Stewart

  • Remote sensing of vegetation 3-D structure for biodiversity and habitat: Review and implications for lidar and radar spaceborne missions

    K. M. Bergen;S. J. Goetz;R. O. Dubayah;G. M. Henebry

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

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

  • Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive

    P.V. Potapov;S.A. Turubanova;A. Tyukavina;A.M. Krylov

  • Mapping abandoned agriculture with multi-temporal MODIS satellite data

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

  • 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

  • Predicting spatial patterns of fire on a southern California landscape

    Alexandra D. Syphard;Volker C. Radeloff;Nicholas S. Keuler;Robert S. Taylor

  • 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

  • Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites

    Patrick Griffiths;Tobias Kuemmerle;Matthias Baumann;Volker C. Radeloff

  • Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region: A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change

    Catalina Munteanu;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Martin Boltiziar;Martin Boltiziar;Van Butsic;Van Butsic

  • Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data

    Camilo Alcantara;Tobias Kuemmerle;Matthias Baumann;Eugenia V Bragina;Eugenia V Bragina

  • Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Oleh Chaskovskyy;Jan Knorn;Volker C. Radeloff

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna M. Pidgeon
Anna M. Pidgeon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Susan I. Stewart
Susan I. Stewart University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alexander V. Prishchepov
Alexander V. Prishchepov University of Copenhagen
Todd J. Hawbaker
Todd J. Hawbaker United States Geological Survey
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Murray K. Clayton
Murray K. Clayton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Patrick Hostert
Patrick Hostert Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Curtis H. Flather
Curtis H. Flather US Forest Service
David J. Mladenoff
David J. Mladenoff University of Wisconsin–Madison

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