Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity

CK Khoury, S Brush, DE Costich, HA Curry… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Global and regional fluxes of carbon from land use and land cover change 1850–2015

RA Houghton, AA Nassikas - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The net flux of carbon from land use and land cover change (LULCC) is an important term in
the global carbon balance. Here we report a new estimate of annual fluxes from 1850 to …

The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: A systematic review of the evidence

T Plieninger, H Draux, N Fagerholm, C Bieling, M Bürgi… - Land use policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, landscapes worldwide have experienced changes (eg, urbanization,
agricultural intensification, expansion of renewable energy uses) at magnitudes that put their …

Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century

Y Feng, Z Zeng, TD Searchinger, AD Ziegler, J Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Previous estimates of tropical forest carbon loss in the twenty-first century using satellite data
typically focus on its magnitude, whereas regional loss trajectories and associated drivers …

Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

PH Verburg, N Crossman, EC Ellis, A Heinimann… - Anthropocene, 2015 - Elsevier
Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification

LV Rasmussen, B Coolsaet, A Martin, O Mertz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Land-use intensification in agrarian landscapes is seen as a key strategy to simultaneously
feed humanity and use ecosystems sustainably, but the conditions that support positive …

Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

A Arneth, S Sitch, J Pongratz, BD Stocker, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The terrestrial biosphere absorbs about 20% of fossil-fuel CO2 emissions. The overall
magnitude of this sink is constrained by the difference between emissions, the rate of …

Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

J Van Vliet, HLF de Groot, P Rietveld… - Landscape and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

Monthly map** of forest harvesting using dense time series Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and deep learning

F Zhao, R Sun, L Zhong, R Meng, C Huang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with disturbance maps produced at annual or multi-year time steps, monthly
map** of forest harvesting can provide more temporal details needed for studying the …