Dmitry Shchepashchenko
Principal Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Principal Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Dmitry Shchepashchenko is a senior researcher jointly associated with the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, and the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program.He has more than 30 years of research experience in forest ecology, forest management, and remote sensing. He actively participates in international research networks, including the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). His current projects include work on the GEO-TREES permanent forest plots for validation and calibration of remote sensing; the validation of forest biomass maps for the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Biomass project; and forest carbon accounting and greenhouse gas reporting under the IMGGAR and the EYE-CLIMA projects. The projects he recently completed include: NatureMap, where he was involved in aspects of forest management and forest biomass mapping globally; citizen science and forest modeling under climate change in the Alpine region as part of the ALPTREES project; and the RESTORE+ project, which addressed landscape restoration on degraded land in Indonesia and Brazil.
Shchepashchenko graduated with a degree in forestry from the Moscow State Forest University (MSFU). He received a PhD in soil science from the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute in Moscow and was awarded a Habilitation degree in ecology from MSFU.
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Publications
Lesiv, M. , Fritz, S. , Dürauer, M., Georgieva, I. , Buchhorn, M., Bertels, L., Tsendbazar, N., Van De Kerchove, R., Zanaga, D., Shchepashchenko, D. , See, L. , Herold, M., Smets, B., Cherlet, M., Brink, A., & McCallum, I. (2025). A global reference data set for land cover mapping at 10 m resolution. Earth System Science Data 17 (11) 6149-6155. 10.5194/essd-17-6149-2025.
Shvidenko, A., Ciais, P., Patra, P.K., Bastos, A., Maksyutov, S., Lauerwald, R., Poulter, B., Belikov, D., Chandra, N., Glagolev, M., Terentieva, I., Karelin, D., Kurbatova, J., Kurganova, I., Romanovskaya, A., Korotkov, V., Mukhortova, L., Prokushkin, A., Gustafson, E., Kraxner, F., Mamkin, V., Lukina, N., Krasovskiy, A. , Vaganov, E., & Shchepashchenko, D. (2025). A System Reanalysis of the Current Greenhouse Gases Budget of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Russia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39 (10) e2025GB008540. 10.1029/2025GB008540.
Kim, W., Skalský, R. , Folberth, C. , Lee, S., Shchepashchenko, D. , Kraxner, F., Kim, J., Kim, C.-G., Jeon, S.-W., Son, Y., & Lee, W.-K. (2025). A Comparative Assessment of Food Security in South and North Korea Using Food Demand and Supply. Land 14 (9) e1703. 10.3390/land14091703.
Gao, X., Reich, P.B., Vincent, J.R., Fagan, M.E., Chazdon, R.L., Fritz, S. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Potts, M.D., Hansen, M.C., Jung, M. , Brancalion, P.H.S., Uriarte, M., Keenan, T.F., Crowther, T.W., Dubayah, R.O., Lesiv, M. , Liang, S., & Wang, D. (2025). The importance of distinguishing between natural and managed tree cover gains in the moist tropics. Nature Communications 16 (1) 10.1038/s41467-025-59196-1.
Jiang, F., Pu, X., Schmid, B., Reich, P., Liang, J., Abbasi, A., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Zambrano, A., Altman, J., Álvarez-González, J., Alves, L., Amani, B., Ammer, C., Aymard, G., Babu Kanda, N., Bastian, M., Bastin, J., Bauters, M., Boeckx, P., Bondarchuk, S., Bondarev, A., Brearley, F., Brennan, S., Briseño-Reyes, J., Broadbent, E., Češljar, G., Chen, H., Chisholm, C., Choi, W., Cienciala, E., Clark, C., Collalti, A., Corral-Rivas, J., Dar, J., Dayanandan, S., de-Miguel, S., Dar, A., Derroire, G., Djordjevic, I., Van Do, T., Doležal, J., Dourdain, A., Eyre, T., Fandohan, A., Frizzera, L., Gatti, R., Gianelle, D., González Elizondo, M., Grieco, E., Harris, D., Hector, A., Hérault, B., Hui, C., Imai, N., Jagodziński, A., Ji, C., Jiang, L., Joly, C., Karminov, V., Kartawinata, K., Kassi, J., Kearsley, E., Keppel, G., Khan, M., Klauberg, C., Korznikov, K., Kothandaraman, S., Kraxner, F., Krivobokov, L., Kucher, D., Kumar, A., Kvashnina, A., Laurin, G., Leite, R., Libalah, M., Lonkina, E., Lu, H., Luo, S., Luo, Y., Mackintosh, E., Marshall, A., Martínez, R., Matula, R., McDonald, W., Narayanan, A., Nava-Miranda, M., Naveenkumar, J., Mendoza, A., Miścicki, S., Moskalyuk, T., Mukhortova, L., Mukul, S., Nabuurs, G., Neldner, V., Nevenic, R., N'Guessan, A., Ngugi, M., Paquette, A., Parfenova, E., Parren, M., Parthasarathy, N., Peri, P., Pfautsch, S., Piedade, M., Polyakova, G., Poulsen, A., Poulsen, J., Pretzsch, H., Rodeghiero, M., Rutishauser, E., Saikia, P., Saner, P., Shchepashchenko, D. , Schöngart, J., Searle, E., Sheil, D., Shen, Z., Shooner, S., Shvidenko, A., Silva, C., Sist, P., Slik, F., Song, W., Souza, A., Stereńczak, K., Sundarapandian, S., Svátek, M., Svoboda, M., Tang, Z., Targhetta, N., Tchebakova, N., Tikhonova, E., Trethowan, L., Vega-Nieva, D., Verbeeck, H., Vieira, S., Volle, C., Vozmishcheva, A., Vozmitel, F., Wang, H., Wang, S., Wang, X., Wittmann, F., Zheng, C., Zhu, B., Zo-Bi, I., Fang, J., & Wang, Z. (2025). Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities. Science Advances 11 (24) 10.1126/sciadv.adt5743.