Land-use change patterns

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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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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Contrasting patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India’s tropical dry woodlands

Tropical dry woodlands are key ecosystems for global biodiversity, carbon storage, and forest-based livelihoods in some of the poorest …

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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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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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Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia
Fostering coexistence between people and wildlife requires understanding their interactions and how they might change in the future. …
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Diversity Loss and Homogenization in Snake Communities in a Deforestation Hotspot
Aim: Agricultural expansion into tropical forests causes massive biodiversity loss. However, existing knowledge about these losses is …
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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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Tropical dry woodland loss in India since 1880 and its relation to current megafauna distributions
Tropical dry woodlands provide ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people and support high biodiversity. Despite their …
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