Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes—A review on its environmental consequences and climate change

PS Roy, RM Ramachandran, O Paul, PK Thakur… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Springer
The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities

H Ralimanana, AL Perrigo, RJ Smith, JS Borrell… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's unique biota is heavily affected by human activity and is under intense threat.
Here, we review the current state of knowledge on the conservation status of Madagascar's …

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

M Neyret, S Peter, G Le Provost, S Boch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that
simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing …

Cultivated land loss and construction land expansion in China: Evidence from national land surveys in 1996, 2009 and 2019

Y Zhou, Z Zhong, G Cheng - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of cultivated land conservation and construction land expansion in
China and its provincial scale is still insufficient due to the lack of accurate and reliable data …

Prioritizing India's landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

A Srivathsa, D Vasudev, T Nair, S Chakrabarti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Biodiversity conservation and human well-being are tightly interlinked. Yet, mismatches in
the scale at which these two priority issues are planned and implemented have exacerbated …

Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry

A Wurz, T Tscharntke, DA Martin, K Osen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Resolving ecological-economic trade-offs between biodiversity and yields is a key challenge
when addressing the biodiversity crisis in tropical agricultural landscapes. Here, we focused …

Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods

HW Fischer, A Chhatre, A Duddu, N Pradhan… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Forest landscape restoration has emerged as a key strategy to sequester atmospheric
carbon and conserve biodiversity while providing livelihood co-benefits for indigenous …

Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment

LR Topanotti, JM Fuchs, M Albert, J Schick… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Enriching tree species–poor and less productive forests by introducing economically
valuable species is a strategy proposed for achieving multipurpose forest management …

Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation

LN Phelps, N Andela, M Gravey, DS Davis… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Narratives of landscape degradation are often linked to unsustainable fire use by local
communities. Madagascar is a case in point: the island is considered globally exceptional …

Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions

DA Martin, JC Llopis, E Raveloaritiana… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shifting cultivation remains an important land system in many tropical landscapes, but
transitions away from shifting cultivation are increasingly common. So far, our knowledge on …