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How do fires affect hummingbirds?
Post-Socialist farmland abandonment patterns in Ukraine
Habitat connectivity of European Bison in the Carpathians

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Post-Socialist farmland abandonment patterns in Ukraine

The breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered rapid and widespread farmland abandonment across Eastern Europe. Using remote sensing and statistical models, Matthias Baumann mapped where abandonment occurred in Ukraine and explained why it happened where it did.

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