Land use and land cover change (LUCC) affects regional climate through modifications in
the water balance and energy budget. These impacts are frequently expressed by: changes …

Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between
agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely …

Over the last two centuries, the impact of the Human System has grown dramatically,
becoming strongly dominant within the Earth System in many different ways. Consumption …

A series of international initiatives have set ambitious goals for restoring global forests. This
review synthesizes natural and social science research on forest restoration (FR), with a …

Current socioeconomic drivers of land-use change associated with globalization are
producing two contrasting land-use trends in Latin America. Increasing global food demand …

With the wages for migrant workers increasing dramatically in China since 2003, the size of
the agricultural labour forces has been shrinking rapidly. Intensively substituting agricultural …

Because an understanding of aquatic bioaccumulation of human pharmaceuticals in Latin
America is limited, this area was recently identified as a priority environmental quality …

Competition theory and niche theory suggest that two morphologically similar species may
coexist by reducing the overlap of at least one dimension of their ecological niche. The …

Traditionally Land Use Cover Change (LUCC) studies have focused on processes of
negative land-cover change, primarily deforestation, partially because examples of positive …

During the last three decades, the area dedicated to tree plantations in northeast of
Argentina has increased five-fold at the expense of the native semideciduous Atlantic Forest …