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Tropical Dry Forests
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
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
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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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Silvopastoral management for lowering trade-offs between beef production and carbon storage in tropical dry woodlands
Tropical dry woodlands and savannas harbour high levels of biodiversity and carbon, but are also important regions for agricultural …
Pedro Fernandez
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Nestor Ignacio Gasparri
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Tobias Nicolás Rojas
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Natalia Romina Banegas
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José Andrés Nasca
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Esteban Gabriel Jobbágy
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value
Tropical and subtropical dry woodlands are rich in biodiversity and carbon. Yet, many of these woodlands are under high deforestation …
Ana Buchadas
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Martin Jung
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Mercedes Bustamante
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Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares
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Stephen T. Garnett
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Ana Sofía Nanni
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Natasha Ribeiro
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Patrick Meyfroidt
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Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
Partitioning the effects of habitat loss, hunting and climate change on the endangered Chacoan peccary
Aim: Land-use change and overexploitation are major threats to biodiversity, and climate change will exert additional pressure in the …
Ricardo Torres
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Matthias Baumann
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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz
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Mariana Altrichter
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Gabriel I. Boaglio
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Hugo Cabral
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Micaela Camino
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Juan M. Campos Krauer
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José L. Cartes
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Rosa L. Cuellar
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Julieta Decarre
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Marcelo Gallegos
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Anthony J. Giordano
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Leónidas Lizarraga
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Leonardo Maffei
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Nora N. Neris
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Veronica Quiroga
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Silvia Saldivar
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Daniela Tamburini
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Jeffrey Thompson
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Marianela Velilla
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Robert B. Wallace
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Alberto Yanosky
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
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade
The global trade of agricultural commodities has profound social-ecological impacts, from potentially increasing food availability and …
Tiago N. P. dos Reis
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Vivian Ribeiro
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Rachael D. Garrett
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Tobias Kuemmerle
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Philippe Rufin
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Vinicius Guidotti
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Pedro C. Amaral
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Patrick Meyfroidt
DOI
Linking disturbance history to current forest structure to assess the impact of disturbances in tropical dry forests
Tropical dry forests are widespread, harbour vast amounts of carbon and unique biodiversity, and underpin the livelihoods of millions. …
Teresa De Marzo
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Marie Pratzer
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Matthias Baumann
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Nestor Ignacio Gasparri
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Florian Pötzschner
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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
,
Yann le Polain de Waroux
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Daniel Muller
,
Tobias Kuemmerle
DOI
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