Agricultural intensification

Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long-Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe
Aim: People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing activities have shaped wildlife distribution …
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Troubled waters at the frontier: Mapping forest-dependent people's access to surface water in the Dry Chaco
Several studies have demonstrated that agricultural commodity frontier expansion impacts local populations’ access to terrestrial …
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Silvopastoral management for lowering trade-offs between beef production and carbon storage in tropical dry woodlands
Tropical dry woodlands and savannas harbour high levels of biodiversity and carbon, but are also important regions for agricultural …
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Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed …
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Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people
Agricultural expansion into subtropical and tropical forests causes major environmental damage, but its wider social impacts often …
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Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world’s rapidly …
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Aligning biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in heterogeneous landscapes
Understanding the trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and agricultural production has become a fundamental question in …
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Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion
Agricultural expansion drives biodiversity loss globally, but impact assessments are biased towards recent time periods. This can lead …
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Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
Trade agreements could help to protect human rights, critical ecosystems, and the climate—but only if sustainability becomes a …
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Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe
Primary forests are critical for forest biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services. In Europe, these forests are particularly …
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