Social-Ecological Systems

Anthropogenic resistance: accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning
Maintaining or restoring connectivity among wildlife populations is a primary strategy to overcome the negative impacts of habitat …
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Integrated framework for stakeholder participation: Methods and tools for identifying and addressing human–wildlife conflicts
As wild areas disappear and agricultural lands expand, understanding how people and wildlife can coexist becomes increasingly …
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Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes
Archetype analysis is a key tool in landscape and sustainability research to organize social-ecological complexity and to identify …
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Framing the search for a theory of land use
Land system science and affiliated research linked to sustainability require improved understanding and theorization of land and its …
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Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
  1. Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social–ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and …
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Conservation Telecouplings
Local threats to biodiversity are increasingly caused by distal drivers. Likewise, conservation responses are increasingly shaped by …
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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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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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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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Long-term land-cover/use change in a traditional farming landscape in Romania inferred from pollen data, historical maps and satellite images
Traditional farming landscapes in the temperate zone that have persisted for millennia can be exceptionally species-rich and are …
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