Future land use

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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Mapping Land System Archetypes to Understand Drivers of Ecosystem Service Risks
Land system archetypes are unique patterns of land-use intensity within prevailing environmental and socio-economic conditions that …
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Rewilding complex ecosystems
The practice of rewilding has been both promoted and criticized in recent years. Benefits include flexibility to react to environmental …
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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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Mapping extinction debt highlights conservation opportunities for birds and mammals in the South American Chaco
Habitat loss is the primary cause of local extinctions. Yet, there is considerable uncertainty regarding how fast species respond to …
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Middle-range theories of land system change
Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid …
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Pasture intensification is insufficient to relieve pressure on conservation priority areas in open agricultural markets
Agricultural expansion is a leading driver of biodiversity loss across the world, but little is known on how future land-use change may …
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Simulating and delineating future land change trajectories across Europe
Explorations of future land use change are important to understand potential conflicts between competing land uses, trade-offs …
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The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina
Agricultural expansion and intensification drive the conversion of natural areas worldwide. Scenarios are powerful tools to explore …
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Assessing land-use effects on European plant diversity using a biome-specific countryside species-area model
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