Melanie Schweikart

Biographic Data

ID7995867
NAMEMelanie Schweikart
GIVEN NAMESMelanie
FAMILY NAMESchweikart
SIGNATURESCHWEIKART M
AFFILIATIONSHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
ORCID0000-0002-3646-6801
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Balancing growth and conservation: Land-use policy scenarios for Uruguay’s grasslands

    Open AccessMelanie Schweikart, Leonardo R Ramírez et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2026

    Land-use scenario simulations support policy decisions that seek to balance economic development with environmental conservation. In Uruguay’s Río de la Plata temperate grasslands, agribusiness expansion has driven land-use intensification, threatening biodiversity, ecosystem services, and rural livelihoods. This study integrates land-use data from 2000 to 2015 with explanatory variables in a multi-layer perceptron Markov model to predict vulnera…

  • Adaptive approaches to Redd+ are needed for countries with high forest cover and low deforestation rates

    Open AccessMelanie Schweikart, Ole Mertz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) aims to maintain forest carbon stocks above benchmark reference levels through financial compensation. However, countries with high forest cover and low deforestation (HFLD) are unlikely to be compensated fairly if REDD+ initiatives fail to conserve existing forests and to incentivize low deforestation rates. Here we analyze the submissions of forest reference levels (FRLs) of f…