Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security

K Deininger, DA Ali, N Kussul, A Shelestov, G Lemoine… - Food policy, 2023 - Elsevier
We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects
of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated up from …

[PDF][PDF]  Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores

CR Papp, I Dostál, V Hlaváč… - Nature …, 2022 - natureconservation.pensoft.net
The development of sustainable transport is a key challenge in societies where there is an
accelerated need for socio-economic development. This is the case for seven countries from …

Large-area, 1964 land cover classifications of Corona spy satellite imagery for the Caucasus Mountains

A Rizayeva, MD Nita, VC Radeloff - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Historical land use strongly influences current landscapes and ecosystems making maps of
historical land cover an important reference point. However, the earliest satellite-based land …

Half a century of forest cover change along the Latvian-Russian border captured by object-based image analysis of Corona and Landsat TM/OLI data

Z Rendenieks, MD Nita, O Nikodemus… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
After 1991, major events, such as the collapse of socialism and the transition to market
economies, caused land use change across the former USSR and affected forests in …

Current practices and challenges for modelling past and future land use and land cover changes in mountainous regions

J Kozak, U Gimmi, T Houet, J Bolliger - Regional Environmental Change, 2017 - Springer
Mountain ecosystems are of particular importance in the context of global change and
sustainable development debates (Gleeson et al. 2016), providing several important …

Using GIS, remote sensing, and machine learning to highlight the correlation between the land-use/land-cover changes and flash-flood potential

R Costache, Q Bao Pham, E Corodescu-Roșca… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of the present study was to explore the correlation between the land-use/land cover
change and the flash-flood potential changes in Zăbala catchment (Romania) between 1989 …

Widespread forest cutting in the aftermath of World War II captured by broad-scale historical Corona spy satellite photography

MD Nita, C Munteanu, G Gutman, IV Abrudan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wars have major economic, political and human implications, and they can strongly affect
environment and land use, not only during the conflicts, but also afterwards. However, data …

Historical land use dataset of the Carpathian region (1819–1980)

J Lieskovský, D Kaim, P Balázs, M Boltižiar… - Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We produced the first spatially explicit, cross-border, digital map of long-term (160 years)
land use in the Carpathian Ecoregion, the Hungarian part of the Pannonian plains and the …

Forest-cover increase does not trigger forest-fragmentation decrease: Case Study from the Polish Carpathians

J Kozak, E Ziółkowska, P Vogt, M Dobosz, D Kaim… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Understanding the causes and consequences of forest-fragmentation changes is critical for
preserving various ecosystem services and to maintain biodiversity levels. We used long …

Land abandonment and restoration in the Polish Carpathians after accession to the European Union

B Ortyl, I Kasprzyk - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abandonment of cultivation particularly applies to mountainous areas, characterized as less-
favorable areas. In addition to natural conditions, changes in land use are also influenced by …