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Land Use

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.

After the fall: Land cover mapping in the Caucasus

Jan 2019 - Biodiversity - Land Use - Remote Sensing

What happens to croplands/forests during political instability? Johanna Buchner’s work in the Caucasus shows that change is dependent on local conditions, and not similar across broad scales.

Figure 2 A field abandoned due to soil salinization (Khorezm, Uzbekistan)

Agricultural land abandonment mapping

Dec 2018 - Land Use - Remote Sensing

He Yin wants to increase precision in quantifying land abandonment across a diversity of biomes and complex crop systems.

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