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Models meet data: Challenges and opportunities in implementing land management in Earth system models
As the applications of Earth system models (ESMs) move from general climate projections toward questions of mitigation and adaptation, …
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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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The emergence of cannabis agriculture frontiers as environmental threats
On agricultural frontiers, minimal regulation and potential windfall profits drive opportunistic land use that often results in …
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Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness
Species–area relationships (SARs) provide an avenue to model patterns of species richness and have recently been shown to vary …
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Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes

What are cultural landscapes?

Does the term ‘cultural landscapes’ refer to just the few emblematic global hotspots of landscape beauty, …
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Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification
Agriculture is the leading driver of biodiversity loss. However, its future impact on biodiversity remains unclear, especially because …
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Inside the Emerald Triangle: Modeling the Placement and Size of Cannabis Production in Humboldt County, CA USA
Cannabis agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry, yet the factors driving the spatial location of cannabis production are not …
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Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies
In the light of daunting global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and food security, improving our …
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Quasi-experimental methods enable stronger inferences from observational data in ecology
Many systems and processes in ecology cannot be experimentally controlled, either because the temporal and spatial scales are too …
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A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring
The wealth of complementary data available from remote sensing missions can hugely aid efforts towards accurately determining land use …
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