Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people

C Kremen, AM Merenlender - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Biodiversity is under siege, with greatly enhanced rates of local and global
extinction and the decline of once-abundant species. Current rates of human-induced …

Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

A Di Sacco, KA Hardwick, D Blakesley… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness

R Rajão, B Soares-Filho, F Nunes, J Börner… - Science, 2020 - science.org
In the increasingly polarized international political arena, it has become difficult to find
common ground to solve Brazil's ongoing environmental crisis, which has global as well as …

Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems

AA Rodrigues, MN Macedo, DV Silvério… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the most biodiverse savannas in the world, yet 46%
of its original cover has been cleared to make way for crops and pastures. These extensive …

[HTML][HTML] From hotspot to hopespot: An opportunity for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

CL Rezende, FR Scarano, ED Assad, CA Joly… - Perspectives in ecology …, 2018 - Elsevier
New remote sensing data on vegetation cover and restoration opportunities bring hope to
the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one of the hottest of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots …

Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

BBN Strassburg, T Brooks, R Feltran-Barbieri… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
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Changes in global food consumption increase GHG emissions despite efficiency gains along global supply chains

Y Li, H Zhong, Y Shan, Y Hang, D Wang, Y Zhou… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to food consumption complement production-
based or territorial accounts by capturing carbon leaked through trade. Here we evaluate …

Increased Amazon carbon emissions mainly from decline in law enforcement

LV Gatti, CL Cunha, L Marani, HLG Cassol… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Amazon forest carbon sink is declining, mainly as a result of land-use and climate
change,,–. Here we investigate how changes in law enforcement of environmental …

Global change pressures on soils from land use and management

P Smith, JI House, M Bustamante… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soils are subject to varying degrees of direct or indirect human disturbance, constituting a
major global change driver. Factoring out natural from direct and indirect human influence is …