Biodiversity: Concepts, patterns, trends, and perspectives

S Díaz, Y Malhi - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

[HTML][HTML] A review of social science on digital agriculture, smart farming and agriculture 4.0: New contributions and a future research agenda

L Klerkx, E Jakku, P Labarthe - NJAS-Wageningen journal of life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
While there is a lot of literature from a natural or technical sciences perspective on different
forms of digitalization in agriculture (big data, internet of things, augmented reality, robotics …

The global wildland–urban interface

F Schug, A Bar-Massada, AR Carlson, H Cox… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is where buildings and wildland vegetation meet or
intermingle,. It is where human–environmental conflicts and risks can be concentrated …

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

[HTML][HTML] Making the UN decade on ecosystem restoration a social-ecological endeavour

J Fischer, M Riechers, J Loos, B Martin-Lopez… - Trends in ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
The United Nations (UN) recently declared 2021 to 2030 the Decade on Ecosystem
Restoration. Against this background, we review recent social-ecological systems research …

Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity

MC Urban, M Alberti, L De Meester, Y Zhou… - Nature climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change and urbanization are two of the most prominent global drivers of biodiversity
and ecosystem change. Fully understanding, predicting and mitigating the biological …

Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems

L An, V Grimm, A Sullivan, BL Turner Ii, N Malleson… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Humanity is facing many grand challenges at unprecedented rates, nearly everywhere, and
at all levels. Yet virtually all these challenges can be traced back to the decision and …

[HTML][HTML] When food systems meet sustainability–Current narratives and implications for actions

C Béné, P Oosterveer, L Lamotte, ID Brouwer… - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
The concept of food system has gained prominence in recent years amongst both scholars
and policy-makers. Experts from diverse disciplines and backgrounds have in particular …

Nexus approaches to global sustainable development

J Liu, V Hull, HCJ Godfray, D Tilman, P Gleick… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Many global challenges, though interconnected, have been addressed singly, at times
reducing one problem while exacerbating others. Nexus approaches simultaneously …

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

J Barlow, F França, TA Gardner, CC Hicks, GD Lennox… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …