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Social-Ecological Systems
What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot
Commodity agriculture continues to spread into tropical dry forests globally, eroding their social-ecological integrity. Understanding …
Christian Levers
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Maria Piquer-Rodriguez
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Florian Gollnow
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Matthias Baumann
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Micaela Camino
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Nestor Ignacio Gasparri
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Gregorio Ignacio Gavier-Pizarro
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Yann le Polain de Waroux
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Daniel Muller
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Javier Nori
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Florian Pötzschner
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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Reinstating freshwater megafauna populations can facilitate ecosystem restoration
Freshwater megafauna, such as sturgeons, giant catfishes, river dolphins, hippopotami, crocodylians, large turtles, and giant …
Fengzhi He
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Jens-Christian Svenning
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Xing Chen
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Klement Tockner
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Elizabeth le Roux
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Marcos Moleon
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Jörn Gessner
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Sonja C. Jähnig
DOI
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran
Human-wildlife conflict is a major conservation challenge worldwide, with negative consequences for people and wildlife alike. Large …
Rasoul Khosravi
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Leila Julaie
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Guillermo Fandos
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Arash Ghoddousi
DOI
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, …
Marie Pratzer
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Patrick Meyfroidt
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Marina Antongiovanni
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Roxana Aragon
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Germán Baldi
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Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas
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Cristina A. de la Vega-Leinert
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Shalini Dhyani
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Jean-Christophe Diepart
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Pedro Fernandez
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Stephen T. Garnett
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Gregorio I. Gavier-Pizarro
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Tamanna Kalam
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Pradeep Koulgi
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Yann le Polain de Waroux
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Sofía Marinaro
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Matias Mastrangelo
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Daniel Mueller
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Robert Mueller
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Ranjini Murali
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Sofía Nanni
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Mauricio Nunez-Regueiro
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David A. Prieto-Torres
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Jayshree Ratnam
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Chintala Sudhakar Reddy
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Natasha Ribeiro
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Achim Roeder
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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz
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Partha Sarathi Roy
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Philippe Rufin
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Mariana Rufino
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Mahesh Sankaran
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Ricardo Torres
,
Srinivas Vaidyanathan
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María Vallejos
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Malika Virah-Sawmy
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Advancing protected area effectiveness assessments by disentangling social-ecological interactions: A case study from the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
Protected and conserved areas (PCAs) target at biodiversity conservation and human well-being, but often reflect low levels of …
Marina Frietsch
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Noelia Zafra-Calvo
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Arash Ghoddousi
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Jacqueline Loos
DOI
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests
Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise lost to agricultural expansion. Yet …
Marie Pratzer
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Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares
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Patrick Meyfroidt
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Tobias Krueger
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Matthias Baumann
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Stephen T. Garnett
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Priority areas for promoting co-benefits between conservation and the traditional use of mammals and birds in the Chaco
As ambitious new targets to increase area-based conservation are discussed, there is a growing concern that such an expansion might …
Daniela Tamburini
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Ricardo Torres
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Christian Levers
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Javier Nori
DOI
Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics
Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more …
Matthias Baumann
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Nestor Ignacio Gasparri
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Ana Buchadas
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Julian Oeser
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Patrick Meyfroidt
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Christian Levers
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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz
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Yann le Polain de Waroux
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Daniel Muller
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
An Outcome-Oriented, Social-Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness
Both the number and the extent of protected areas have grown considerably in recent years, but evaluations of their effectiveness …
Arash Ghoddousi
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Jacqueline Loos
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry
Hunting is a widespread but often overlooked land-use activity, providing major benefits to society. Hunting takes place in most …
Wiebke Neumann
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Christian Levers
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Fredrik Widemo
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Navinder J. Singh
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Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
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