Agriculture / biodiversity trade-offs

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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Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes
Understanding how biodiversity responds to intensifying agriculture is critical to mitigating the trade-offs between them. These …
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Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they are increasingly under threat from …
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Untangling the imprints of climate, geography and land use/cover on bird diversity in the South American Gran Chaco
To evaluate the structure of bird communities throughout the South American Gran Chaco determining the effects of climate, geography …
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Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations
Land-use change is a global threat to biodiversity, but how land-use change affects species beyond the direct effect of habitat loss …
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Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social–ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and how …
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Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions
Tropical deforestation is a main driver of the global biodiversity crisis. Impact assessments typically focus on species’ …
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Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
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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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