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The emergence of cannabis agriculture frontiers as environmental threats
On agricultural frontiers, minimal regulation and potential windfall profits drive opportunistic land use that often results in …
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Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness
Species–area relationships (SARs) provide an avenue to model patterns of species richness and have recently been shown to vary …
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Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes

What are cultural landscapes?

Does the term ‘cultural landscapes’ refer to just the few emblematic global hotspots of landscape beauty, …
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Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification
Agriculture is the leading driver of biodiversity loss. However, its future impact on biodiversity remains unclear, especially because …
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Inside the Emerald Triangle: Modeling the Placement and Size of Cannabis Production in Humboldt County, CA USA
Cannabis agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry, yet the factors driving the spatial location of cannabis production are not …
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Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies
In the light of daunting global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and food security, improving our …
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Quasi-experimental methods enable stronger inferences from observational data in ecology
Many systems and processes in ecology cannot be experimentally controlled, either because the temporal and spatial scales are too …
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A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring
The wealth of complementary data available from remote sensing missions can hugely aid efforts towards accurately determining land use …
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Competition for Land-Based Ecosystem Services: Trade-Offs and Synergies
In this chapter, we define, conceptualize, and exemplify competition for ecosystem services derived from land. Competition for …
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Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier
Rapidly rising populations and likely increases in incomes in sub-Saharan Africa make tens of millions of hectares of cropland …
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