Drivers of land-use change

Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long-Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe

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People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing activities have shaped wildlife distribution …

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Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade
The global trade of agricultural commodities has profound social-ecological impacts, from potentially increasing food availability and …
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Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics

Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more …

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Agents of Forest Disturbance in the Argentine Dry Chaco
Forest degradation in the tropics is a widespread, yet poorly understood phenomenon. This is particularly true for tropical and …
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Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation
Land-use frontiers, such as agriculture expanding into forests, remain a major driver of biodiversity loss, and often lead to …
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Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed …
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Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment
Wars are frequent and can affect land use substantially, but the effects of wars can vary greatly depending on their characteristics, …
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Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology
Droughts are often suspected to increase the risk of violent conflict through agricultural production shocks, and existing studies …
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Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty …
Patrick Meyfroidt, Ariane de Bremond, Casey M. Ryan, Emma Archer, Richard Aspinall, Abha Chhabra, Gilberto Camara, Esteve Corbera, Ruth DeFries, Sandra Diaz, Jinwei Dong, Erle C. Ellis, Karl-Heinz Erb, Janet A. Fisher, Rachel D. Garrett, Nancy E. Golubiewski, H. Ricardo Grau, J. Morgan Grove, Helmut Haberl, Andreas Heinimann, Patrick Hostert, Esteban G. Jobbagy, Suzi Kerr, Tobias Kuemmerle, Eric F. Lambin, Sandra Lavorel, Sharachandra Lele, Ole Mertz, Peter Messerli, Graciela Metternicht, Darla K. Munroe, Harini Nagendra, Jonas Ostergaard Nielsen, Dennis S. Ojima, Dawn Cassandra Parker, Unai Pascual, John R. Porter, Navin Ramankutty, Anette Reenberg, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Karen C. Seto, Verena Seufert, Hideaki Shibata, Allison Thomson, Billie L. Turner II, Jotaro Urabe, Tom Veldkamp, Peter H. Verburg, Gete Zeleke, Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen
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Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands
Tropical dry woodlands are rapidly being lost to agricultural expansion, but how deforestation dynamics play out in these woodlands …
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