How is biodiversity in land systems impacted by human pressures?

We focus on understanding how biodiversity is affected by the various activities people carry out on land, such as agriculture, forestry or hunting.

We explore how biodiversity outcomes differ among alternative land management options (e.g., different livestock systems) and land-use pathways (e.g., agricultural expansion vs. intensification), at the level of species as well as of entire communities. We also seek to understand the importance of direct (e.g., habitat conversion) versus indirect (e.g., increasing mortality, loss of connectivity) outcomes of land-use change. A focus of our work is on understanding interactions among land-use change and other pressures on biodiversity, such as hunting. Finally, we analyse what characterizes land systems that foster or inhibit coexistence between people and wildlife.

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Tropical Dry Forests
Old-growth forests
Mammals
Birds
Bats
Megafauna
Rewilding
Species distribution models
Habitat modelling
Connectivity and fragmentation
Human-Wildlife Conflicts
Social-Ecological Systems