Chaco

Tropical dry forests are widespread, harbour vast amounts of carbon and unique biodiversity, and underpin the livelihoods of millions. …

New paper out, stemming from my involvement in the Postdoc researcher group at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Transformations in HUman Environment Systems (https://www.iri-thesys.org). This is the outcome of a surve we did at the KOSMOS conference at Humboldt-University in 2019.

In a new paper in Environmental Research Letters we present the most comprehensive reconstruction of land-use change in the Chaco for the past 35 years. In addition, we present a new way of translating time series of land cover change into systemic metrics, that allow for a more processed-based understanding of frontier expansion in modern commodity frontiers.

Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more …

Tropical dry forests harbor major carbon stocks but are disappearing rapidly across the globe as agriculture expands into them. …

Forest loss in the tropics affects large areas, but whereas full forest conversions are routinely assessed, forest degradation patters …

Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world’s rapidly …

Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change and biodiversity loss are not fully …

Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social–ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and how …