Context For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human well-being
and livelihoods, communities, and economies in myriad ways with consequences for social …

Shifting cultivation remains an important land system in many tropical landscapes, but
transitions away from shifting cultivation are increasingly common. So far, our knowledge on …

Resolving ecological-economic trade-offs between biodiversity and yields is a key challenge
when addressing the biodiversity crisis in tropical agricultural landscapes. Here, we focused …

Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural
land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …

New technologies like ecoacoustic surveys promise time and cost efficiency for biodiversity
assessments, serve as a basis for effective conservation policies, and are particularly …

Sustainable land-system transformations are necessary to avert biodiversity and climate
collapse. However, it remains unclear where entry points for transformations exist in …

Narratives of landscape degradation are often linked to unsustainable fire use by local
communities. Madagascar is a case in point: the island is considered globally exceptional …

Mining has severe environmental and social impacts. To compensate for the environmental
damage caused at mining sites, mining companies are required to engage in biodiversity …

Peri-urban area around a city is a dynamic zone that undergoes considerable changes over
time in terms of its functional land use. Analogous to other Indian cities, these changes are …

The northeastern SAVA region of Madagascar is the largest vanilla producing area in the
world and is flourishing due to a large global demand for natural vanilla. Although the …