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Christian Levers

University of British Columbia · CA
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Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Research interest
Research interests include Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.
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5,603
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94
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Recent publications

Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning
One Earth 2025cited by 6position: middledoi
Identifying typical patterns of land-use and landscape structure in citizen science butterfly monitoring
Ecological Indicators 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Different places, different challenges: mapping global variations in agrifood-system burdens
Environmental Research Letters 2025cited by 1position: firstdoi
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture
Science 2024cited by 109position: middledoi
Woody semi‐natural habitats modulate the effects of field size and functional crop diversity on farmland birds
Journal of Applied Ecology 2024cited by 16position: middledoi
Divergent agricultural development pathways across farm and landscape scales in Europe: Implications for sustainability and farmer satisfaction
Global Environmental Change 2024cited by 15position: middledoi
Can we estimate farm size from field size? An empirical investigation of the field size to farm size relationship
Agricultural Systems 2024cited by 13position: middledoi
What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot
Environmental Research Letters 2024cited by 8position: firstdoi
Assessing landscape-level effects of permanent grassland management and landscape configuration on open-land butterflies based on national monitoring data
Biodiversity and Conservation 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification
One Earth 2023cited by 57position: middledoi
Why has farming in Europe changed? A farmers’ perspective on the development since the 1960s
Regional Environmental Change 2023cited by 21position: middledoi
Research priorities for global food security under extreme events
One Earth 2022cited by 101position: middledoi
Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
Environmental Research Letters 2022cited by 64position: middledoi
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry
Ecology and Society 2022cited by 32position: middledoi
Market proximity and irrigation infrastructure determine farmland rentals in Sichuan Province, China
Journal of Rural Studies 2022cited by 24position: middledoi
Mapping and characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America
Ecology and Society 2022cited by 16position: middledoi
Priority areas for promoting co-benefits between conservation and the traditional use of mammals and birds in the Chaco
Biological Conservation 2022cited by 14position: middledoi
Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
2022cited by 5position: middledoi
Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021cited by 74position: firstdoi
Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes
Landscape and Urban Planning 2021cited by 44position: middledoi
Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
Biological Conservation 2021cited by 34position: middledoi
Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco
Ecography 2020cited by 79position: middledoi
Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
Journal of Applied Ecology 2020cited by 66position: middledoi
Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco
Journal of Applied Ecology 2019cited by 45position: middledoi
Wind turbines in high quality habitat cause disproportionate increases in collision mortality of the white-tailed eagle
Biological Conservation 2019cited by 26position: middledoi
Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production
2019cited by 8position: firstdoi
Where are Europe’s last primary forests?
Diversity and Distributions 2018cited by 449position: middledoi
Spatial variation in determinants of agricultural land abandonment in Europe
The Science of The Total Environment 2018cited by 265position: firstdoi
Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes
Land Use Policy 2018cited by 151position: middledoi
Mapping continuous fields of tree and shrub cover across the Gran Chaco using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-1 data
Remote Sensing of Environment 2018cited by 113position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Pieter Johannes Verkerk · Université Laval7 papers (2013–2016)Patrick Meyfroidt · UCLouvain6 papers (2013–2025)Ignácio Gasparri · National University of Tucumán5 papers (2021–2024)Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin5 papers (2020–2024)Karl‐Heinz Erb · BOKU University5 papers (2013–2016)Patrick Hostert · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin5 papers (2013–2018)Christoph Plutzar · Department of the Environment5 papers (2013–2016)Helmut Haberl · Institute for Social Anthropology4 papers (2013–2015) · 4 papers (2018–2024) · 4 papers (2013–2015) · 3 papers (2015–2016)Marcel Schwieder · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin3 papers (2024–2025) · 3 papers (2020–2022)Leandro Macchi · Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas3 papers (2018–2021) · 3 papers (2015–2018) · 3 papers (2024–2025) · 3 papers (2013–2016)Martin Rudbeck Jepsen · University of Copenhagen3 papers (2013–2016)Zia Mehrabi · University of Colorado Boulder2 papers (2023–2025)Vasco Diogo · Utrecht University2 papers (2023–2024)
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