Land use change is currently the largest threat to biodiversity, and exacerbates the detrimental effects of climate change. We are interested in novel types of land use change, such as housing growth in the WUI, and widespread land abandonment after socioeconomic shocks, and how such changes affect biodiversity.
Using Corona spy satellite images, Afag Rizayeva is exploring the impact of long-term land cover changes on habitats of common and rare Caucasus ungulates in Azerbaijan.
Half the global population is potentially exposed to direct human-environmental conflict in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Wildfire is a widespread issue across all continents and biomes.
A new map of the human footprint identifies the wildest forests of Argentina and provides valuable information for land use planners and conservationists.
