Drivers of land-use change

frontiermetrics: An R Package for Characterizing Deforestation Frontiers
Deforestation frontiers are regions where land use expands into forests, causing much of the world’s biodiversity loss, carbon …
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Climate variability and human disturbances as drivers of vegetation health in the riparian zone of the Danube

Forests along rivers are among the most valuable ecosystems, buffering climate extremes and sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem …

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Protecting temperate old-growth forests as biotic microrefugia amid climate change
In times of climate change and biosphere degradation, leveraging the potential of forests to support carbon storage and biodiversity is …
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Mapping the geography of livestock systems in South America’s dry diagonal

Livestock production is a major driver of global environmental change, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, …

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Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation
Tropical and subtropical forests and savannas support millions of forest-dependent people. These ecosystems are under rising pressure …
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Fire dynamics in the South American Chaco and their link to agriculture and drought
Fire is a key process in tropical dry woodlands and savannahs, shaping their vegetation and ecological functioning. Yet, fires in these …
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Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present
The expansion of commodity agriculture into tropical forests leads to major social–ecological impacts. Yet little is known about where …
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Quantifying the Spatial Footprint of Agriculture-Driven Edge Effects in a Global Deforestation Hotspot
Tropical dry forests are under high and rising pressure from agricultural expansion, resulting in widespread forest conversion and …
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Habitat suitability for Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) increases across its global range, but populations continue to decline
Migratory birds are among the most threatened animals globally. Environmental drivers of bird distributions outside the breeding …
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Capturing the multidimensionality of land-use agents in a deforestation hotspot
Given increasing recognition that strategies to transition to sustainable land use should be context specific, structuring the …
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