Social-Ecological Systems

Home-garden connectivity rather than tree-cover connectivity facilitates biodiversity in fragmented tropical forest landscapes

Context Forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a global strategy to address forest fragmentation and degradation, yet, its …

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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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Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present

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The expansion of commodity agriculture into tropical forests leads to major …

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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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Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands

Megafauna are among the most challenging conservation targets, particularly in the world’s tropical dry woodlands, which are under high …

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Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts of socio-economic shocks on large carnivores
  1. Large carnivores are ecologically, economically and socially important, but they are also among the most threatened species worldwide. …
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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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Design principles for social-ecological research at the landscape scale applied to western Rwanda
Place-based social-ecological systems research provides major opportunities to advance sustainability and often involves large, …
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Impacts of agricultural expansion on the resource availability of forest-dependent Indigenous communities in the Dry Chaco
Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests threatens forest-dependent communities by disrupting their access to vital …
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Uncovering patterns of cattle intensification across South America's dry diagonal

Where cattle production expands into natural ecosystems, it typically leads to stark social–ecological impacts, including greenhouse …

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