Agricultural intensification

Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
  1. Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social–ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and …
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Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions
Tropical deforestation is a main driver of the global biodiversity crisis. Impact assessments typically focus on species’ …
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Fires scorching Bolivia's Chiquitano forest
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Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems
As the global food system contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, understanding the sources of GHG …
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Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes
Cultural landscapes are valued for their landscape character and cultural heritage. Yet, these often low-intensity, multifunctional …
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Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images
Social, burrowing mammals such as prairie dogs, ground squirrels or marmots are keystone species in grassland ecosystems. Grasslands …
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Post-Soviet Land-Use Change Affected Fire Regimes on the Eurasian Steppes
Fire is an important disturbance in grassland ecosystems. Anthropogenic factors, especially land use, have drastically altered fire …
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Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts
Sustainable intensification of agricultural production is expected to be an important pathway for achieving future food security while …
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Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco
World-wide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural …
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Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
Assessments of land-system change have dominantly focused on conversions among broad land-use categories, whereas intensity changes …
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