Author

Catalina Munteanu

Observed name: Munteanu, Catalina

Institutions: University of Freiburg, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Transylvania University of Brașov

Observed institutions: University of Copenhagen, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Freiburg, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Transylvania University of Brașov, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies

ORCID: 0000-0003-1616-9639

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-1616-9639

OpenAlex ID: A5089555029

Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites

2013 · Patrick Griffiths, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 302

Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change

2014 · Catalina Munteanu, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al. · Land Use Policy · 301

Legacies of 19th century land use shape contemporary forest cover

2015 · Catalina Munteanu, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al. · Global Environmental Change · 122

Broad scale forest cover reconstruction from historical topographic maps

2015 · Dominik Kaim, Jacek Kozak, et al. · Applied Geography · 112

Widespread forest cutting in the aftermath of World War II captured by broad-scale historical Corona spy satellite photography

2017 · Mihai Daniel Nita, Catalina Munteanu, et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 78

Mapping tree species diversity in temperate montane forests using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery and topography data

2023 · Xiang Liu, Julian Frey, et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 73

Historical forest management in Romania is imposing strong legacies on contemporary forests and their management

2015 · Catalina Munteanu, Mihai Daniel Nita, et al. · Forest Ecology and Management · 72

Historical land use dataset of the Carpathian region (1819–1980)

2018 · Juraj Lieskovský, Dominik Kaim, et al. · Journal of Maps · 66

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Long-term land-cover/use change in a traditional farming landscape in Romania inferred from pollen data, historical maps and satellite images

2016 · Angelica Feurdean, Catalina Munteanu, et al. · Regional Environmental Change · 56

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Drivers of forest cover change in Eastern Europe and European Russia, 1985–2012

2016 · Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Catalina Munteanu, et al. · Land Use Policy · 53

The effect of protected areas on forest disturbance in the Carpathian Mountains 1985–2010

2016 · Van Butsic, Catalina Munteanu, et al. · Conservation Biology · 48

Long-term change in drivers of forest cover expansion: an analysis for Switzerland (1850-2000)

2017 · Christin Loran, Catalina Munteanu, et al. · Regional Environmental Change · 41

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Nineteenth-century land-use legacies affect contemporary land abandonment in the Carpathians

2017 · Catalina Munteanu, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al. · Regional Environmental Change · 41

Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high‐conservation‐value forests

2021 · Catalina Munteanu, Cornelius Senf, et al. · Conservation Biology · 36

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Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation

2024 · Loren McClenachan, Torben Rick, et al. · Endangered Species Research · 34

Worldwide moderate-resolution mapping of lake surface chl-a reveals variable responses to global change (1997–2020)

2022 · Benjamin M. Kraemer, Karan Kakouei, et al. · PLOS Water · 27

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Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation

2025 · Laetitia M. Navarro, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, et al. · Nature Reviews Biodiversity · 24

Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion

2020 · Catalina Munteanu, Johannes Kamp, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 22

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The potential of historical spy-satellite imagery to support research in ecology and conservation

2024 · Catalina Munteanu, Benjamin M Kraemer, et al. · BioScience · 21

Land Change in the Carpathian Region Before and After Major Institutional Changes

2016 · Catalina Munteanu, Volker Radeloff, et al. · Springer eBooks · 16

Tree species diversity mapping from spaceborne optical images: The effects of spectral and spatial resolution

2024 · Xiang Liu, Julian Frey, et al. · Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation · 15

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Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes

2024 · Ana Stritih, Cornelius Senf, et al. · Landscape Ecology · 8

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Correlates of forest-cover change in European Russia, 1989–2012

2020 · Delgerjargal Uvsh, Scott Gehlbach, et al. · Land Use Policy · 7

Bird conservation in the Carpathian Ecoregion in light of long-term land use trends and conservation responsibility

2018 · Catalina Munteanu, Anna M. Pidgeon, et al. · Biodiversity and Conservation · 4

Priority Actions for the Conservation of Primary and Old‐Growth Forests in Europe

2026 · Lyla O'Brien, Fabio Castelli, et al. · Conservation Letters · 2

Works count: 99

Citation count: 1,585

H-index: 19

I10-index: 21