Concepts & Theory

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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How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?
Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change and biodiversity loss are not fully …
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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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Identifying priority areas for restoring mountain ungulates in the Caucasus ecoregion
Mountain ungulates around the world have been decimated to small, fragmented populations. Restoring these species often is limited by …
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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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A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses
Land cover maps increasingly underlie research into socioeconomic and environmental patterns and processes, including global change. It …
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Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
Assessments of land-system change have dominantly focused on conversions among broad land-use categories, whereas intensity changes …
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Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions
Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America’s dry forests and grasslands increase agricultural production, but …
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