Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

F Zabel, R Delzeit, JM Schneider, R Seppelt… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main
strategies to boost agricultural production, but are also major drivers of biodiversity decline …

Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review

JJ Williams, T Newbold - Diversity and Distributions, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate and land‐use change, the greatest pressures on biodiversity, can directly
influence each other. One key case is the impact land‐use change has on local climatic …

The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

EA Martin, M Dainese, Y Clough, A Báldi… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key
aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement of crop fields and …

Tailored pathways toward revived farmland biodiversity can inspire agroecological action and policy to transform agriculture

D Sietz, S Klimek, J Dauber - Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in agrochemistry in the 19th century, along with increased specialisation and
intensification of food production, transformed agriculture triggering a farmland biodiversity …

Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis

M Beckmann, K Gerstner, M Akin‐Fajiye… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most current research on land‐use intensification addresses its potential to either threaten
biodiversity or to boost agricultural production. However, little is known about the …

Templates for multifunctional landscape design

S Lavorel, K Grigulis, DR Richards, TR Etherington… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context In climate-smart landscapes people manage land use for integrating sustainable
production, climate change adaptation and mitigation. The spatial dimension of this …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural intensity interacts with landscape arrangement in driving ecosystem services

S Gebhardt, J van Dijk, MJ Wassen, M Bakker - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification has enhanced productivity but also led to enormous ecosystem
service and biodiversity losses. Strategic spatial landscape design could counteract this …

Grassland intensification effects cascade to alter multifunctionality of wetlands within metaecosystems

Y Guo, EH Boughton, S Bohlman, C Bernacchi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Sustainable agricultural intensification could improve ecosystem service multifunctionality,
yet empirical evidence remains tenuous, especially regarding consequences for spatially …

Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation

L Egli, C Meyer, C Scherber, H Kreft… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Closing yield gaps within existing croplands, and thereby avoiding further habitat
conversions, is a prominently and controversially discussed strategy to meet the rising …

Landscape composition, configuration, and trophic interactions shape arthropod communities in rice agroecosystems

C Dominik, R Seppelt, FG Horgan… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing landscape heterogeneity of agroecosystems can enhance natural enemy
populations and promote biological control. However, little is known about the multiscale …