Beyond organic farming–harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes

T Tscharntke, I Grass, TC Wanger, C Westphal… - Trends in ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
We challenge the widespread appraisal that organic farming is the fundamental alternative
to conventional farming for harnessing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Certification of …

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

Y Yang, D Tilman, Z **, P Smith, CB Barrett, YG Zhu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding,
driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

J Rockström, J Gupta, D Qin, SJ Lade, JF Abrams… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably
linked,–, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they …

Complex agricultural landscapes host more biodiversity than simple ones: A global meta-analysis

N Estrada-Carmona, AC Sánchez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity conservation requires profound
structural changes worldwide. Often, discussions are centered on management at the field …

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 …

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

J Gupta, X Bai, DM Liverman, J Rockström… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of
the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth—is exacerbating …

Functional connectivity of the world's protected areas

A Brennan, R Naidoo, L Greenstreet, Z Mehrabi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Global policies call for connecting protected areas (PAs) to conserve the flow of animals and
genes across changing landscapes, yet whether global PA networks currently support …

Regional scalable priorities for national biodiversity and carbon conservation planning in Asia

L Zhu, AC Hughes, XQ Zhao, LJ Zhou, KP Ma… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
To achieve the goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, we must identify
representative targets that effectively protect biodiversity and can be implemented at a …

Demystifying ecological connectivity for actionable spatial conservation planning

M Beger, A Metaxas, AC Balbar, JA McGowan… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Connectivity underpins the persistence of life; it needs to inform biodiversity conservation
decisions. Yet, when prioritising conservation areas and develo** actions, connectivity is …

Achieving a nature-and people-positive future

DO Obura, F DeClerck, PH Verburg, J Gupta… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Despite decades of increasing investment in conservation, we have not succeeded in"
bending the curve" of biodiversity decline. Efforts to meet new targets and goals for the next …