• Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people 

      Levers, Christian; Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo; Baumann, Matthias; De Marzo, Teresa; Fernandez, Pedro David; Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; de Waroux, Yann le Polain; Piquer Rodríguez, María; Semper Pascual, Asunción; Kuemmerle, Tobias (National Academy of Sciences, 2021-11-02)
      Agricultural expansion into subtropical and tropical forests causes major environmental damage, but its wider social impacts often remain hidden. Forest-dependent smallholders are particularly strongly impacted, as they ...
    • Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions 

      Semper Pascual, Asunción; Decarre, Julieta; Baumann, Matthias; Busso, Juan M.; Camino, Micaela; Gómez Valencia, Bibiana; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Elsevier, 2019-05-27)
      Tropical deforestation is a main driver of the global biodiversity crisis. Impact assessments typically focus on species' presence, which means impacts are detected when local extinctions have occurred – and thus when it ...
    • Carbon emissions from agricultural expansion and intensification in the Chaco 

      Baumann, Matthias; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Griffiths, Patrick; Hostert, Patrick; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Wiley, 2017-05)
      Carbon emissions from land‐use changes in tropical dry forest systems are poorly understood, although they are likely globally significant. The South American Chaco has recently emerged as a hot spot of agricultural expansion ...
    • Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012 

      Baumann, Matthias; Israel, Christoph; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2017-04)
      The dry forests of Latin America are among the most dynamic deforestation frontiers in the world and are important carbon and biodiversity reservoirs. Our knowledge on the spatial patterns of deforestation and its proximate ...
    • Drivers of agricultural land - use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions 

      Piquer Rodriguez, María; Butsic, V.; Gartner, P.; Macchi, Leandro; Baumann, Matthias; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2018-02)
      Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The Pampas and Chaco regions of Argentina have ...
    • Mapping extinction debt highlights conservation opportunities for birds and mammals in the south American Chaco 

      Semper-Pascal, Asunción; Macchi, Leandro; Sabatini, Francesco María; Decarre, Julieta; Baumann, Matthias; Blendinger, Pedro G.; Gomez Valencia, Bibiana; Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2018-02)
      Habitat loss is the primary cause of local extinctions. Yet, there is considerable uncertainty regarding how fast species respond to habitat loss, and how time‐delayed responses vary in space. We focused on the Argentine ...
    • The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina 

      Piquer Rodriguez, María; Baumann, Matthias; Butsic, V.; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Müller, D.; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2018)
      Agricultural expansion and intensification drive the conversion of natural areas worldwide. Scenarios are powerful tools to explore possible future changes in agricultural land use, how these may affect the environment, ...
    • The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco 

      Fehlenberg, Verena; Baumann, Matthias; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2017-07)
      South America’s tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and soybean production both drive these forest losses, but their relative importance remains ...
    • Understanding the distribution of cattle production systems in the South American Chaco 

      Fernandez, Pedro David; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Baumann, Matthias; Grau, Héctor Ricardo; Nasca, Jose Andres; Radrizzani Bonadeo, Alejandro; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio (Taylor and Francis, 2020-02-11)
      Impacts of cattle production vary among different production systems, but data on their distribution is scarce for most world regions. In this work, we combine datasets on cattle vaccination locations and land cover in a ...
    • Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations 

      Semper Pascual, Asunción; Decarre, Julieta; Baumann, Matthias; Camino, Micaela; Di Blanco, Yamil; Gómez Valencia, Bibiana; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Springer, 2020-08)
      Land-use change is a global threat to biodiversity, but how land-use change affects species beyond the direct effect of habitat loss remains poorly understood. We developed an approach to isolate and map the direct and ...