Past Projects
Here are some of the larger, collaborative research projects e have been leading or involved with in the past:
Towards Adoption of Systematic Wildlife Monitoring Framework in the Southern CaucasusEmbedding monitoring in conservation efforts is crucial for developing proactive conservation and management strategies, and for evaluating their effectiveness. |
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ReForCha - Continuous satellite-based indicators for mapping subtropical forest degradation and its environmental impactsUsing the Dry Chaco in Argentina as an example, we develop advanced remote sensing methods and indicators to map forest degradation, assess effects of forest dynamics on soil degradation and salinization, and evaluate forest protection policies. >> More on this project |
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COUPLED - Operationalising Telecouplings for Solving Sustainability Challenges for Land UseCOUPLED was a European Training Network (H2020) focused on the concept of telecoupling and sustainability challenges in land use. |
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EcoSpy - Leveraging the potential of historical spy satellite photography for ecology and conservationEcoSpy used global, high-resolution spy satellite photographs from the Cold War era (Corona) to enhance the long-term understanding of ecological processes. >> More on this project |
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Trade-offs between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the South American ChacoThis project assessed effects of land-use change on biodiversity in the Argentine Chaco over the last 40 years. It did so using the full Landsat image archives to map land change, and local biodiversity data to assess land-change impacts. >> More on this project |
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FORESTS & CO - Co-Benefits and Conflicts between CO2 sequestration and biodiversity conservation in European ForestsThis project mapped primary forests in Europe and explored synergies and trade-offs between carbon and biodiversity in them. >> More on this project |
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PASANOA - Pathways to sustainable land management in Northern ArgentinaThis project assessed agriculture/biodiversity/carbon trade-offs in the Argentine Dry Chaco and assessed how landscapes could look like that minimize these trade-offs. >> More on this project |
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BALTRAK - Balancing trade-offs between agriculture and biodiversity in the steppes of KazakhstanBALTRAK quantified changes in land use and fire regimes, and how both impacts on biodiversity, in terms of bird and plant communities, in Kazakhstan's steppes. >> More on this project |
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HERCULES - Sustainable futures for Europe's heritage in cultural landscapesHERCULES was a collaborative project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. In this project, we mapped land-uwe change and cultural landscapes across Europe. >> More on this project |
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VOLANTE: Visions of land use transitions in EuropeVOLANTE was a project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. VOLANTE land system in Europe to develop a roadmap for future land resource management. We contributed mapping and understanding recent land-use change at the pan-European scale. >> More on this project |
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Biodiversity impacts of future land use trajectoriesThis project investigated the influence of future land use change on biodiversity at the global scale. It was funded by the Einstein Foundation, Berlin. >> More on the project |