Land-use change patterns

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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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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Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure
Temperate grasslands are globally widespread, play an important role as carbon storage, and harbor unique biodiversity. Livestock …
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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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Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia
Large and ecologically functioning steppe complexes have been lost historically across the globe, but recent land-use changes may allow …
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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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Land-cover change in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987 based on the topographic correction of multi-temporal Landsat composites
Mountainous regions are changing rapidly across the world due to both land-use change and climate change. Given the importance of …
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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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Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems
As the global food system contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, understanding the sources of GHG …
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