Agriculture / biodiversity trade-offs

Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world’s rapidly …
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Aligning biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in heterogeneous landscapes
Understanding the trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and agricultural production has become a fundamental question in …
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Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure
Temperate grasslands are globally widespread, play an important role as carbon storage, and harbor unique biodiversity. Livestock …
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Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco
Better balancing agricultural production and biodiversity conservation is a central goal for many landscapes. Yet, empirical work on …
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Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion
Agricultural expansion drives biodiversity loss globally, but impact assessments are biased towards recent time periods. This can lead …
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Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia

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Large and ecologically functioning steppe complexes have been lost historically across the globe, but recent land-use changes may …

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Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
Trade agreements could help to protect human rights, critical ecosystems, and the climate—but only if sustainability becomes a …
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Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe

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Primary forests are critical for forest biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services. In Europe, these forests are particularly …

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Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes
  1. Understanding how biodiversity responds to intensifying agriculture is critical to mitigating the trade-offs between them. These …
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Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they are increasingly under threat from …
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