Grassy ecosystems in the Anthropocene

N Stevens, W Bond, A Feurdean… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by
human influence. Humans have had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems …

Ecological impacts of early 21st century agricultural change in Europe–a review

C Stoate, A Baldi, P Beja, ND Boatman, I Herzon… - Journal of environmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
The impacts of agricultural land use are far-reaching and extend to areas outside
production. This paper provides an overview of the ecological status of agricultural systems …

Linking ecosystem services trade-offs, bundles and hotspot identification with cropland management in the coastal Hangzhou Bay area of China

CAO Yu, Y Cao, G Li, Y Tian, X Fang, Y Li, Y Tan - Land Use Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the co-occurrence of multiple ecosystem services within farming systems and
how they are associated across space are relatively new topics. Quantifying ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of irrigated olive grove expansion in Mediterranean landscapes and associated biodiversity impacts

R Morgado, PF Ribeiro, JL Santos, F Rego… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last 30 years, olive farming has experienced a fast and large-scale intensification
process across its Mediterranean range, that is resha** Mediterranean farmland …

Incorporating historical information into the multi-type ant colony optimization model to optimize patch-level land use allocation

Z Tong, Y Liu, Z Zhang, B Pang, R An, Y Lu… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Land use optimization is a crucial approach for promoting sustainable development.
However, current land use optimization models usually ignore the temporal pattern of land …

Forest edges have high conservation value for bird communities in mosaic landscapes

J Terraube, F Archaux, M Deconchat… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major conservation challenge in mosaic landscapes is to understand how trait‐specific
responses to habitat edges affect bird communities, including potential cascading effects on …

Optimizing biodiversity gain of European agriculture through regional targeting and adaptive management of conservation tools

ED Concepción, I Aneva, M Jay, S Lukanov… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification continues being a major threat for biodiversity worldwide. Despite
the incorporation of diverse conservation tools in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) …

Avoidance of unconventional oil wells and roads exacerbates habitat loss for grassland birds in the North American Great Plains

SJ Thompson, DH Johnson, ND Niemuth… - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Oil development in the Bakken shale region has increased rapidly as a result of new
technologies and strong demand for fossil fuel. This region also supports a particularly high …

Edge‐effect interactions in fragmented and patchy landscapes

LM Porensky, TP Young - Conservation Biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological edges are increasingly recognized as drivers of landscape patterns and
ecosystem processes. In fragmented and patchy landscapes (eg, a fragmented forest or a …

Modelling edge effects of mature forest plantations on peatland waders informs landscape‐scale conservation

JD Wilson, R Anderson, S Bailey… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Edge effects of native forest fragmentation have been well studied, but there are few studies
of open‐ground habitats fragmented by plantation forests. We measure forestry edge effects …