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In the past three decades China has experienced fundamental changes to its economy, which have transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the...

Despite a rich history of theoretical and empirical work showing that increasing biodiversity results in higher ecosystem function, this research has ...

Gold mining has rapidly increased across the Amazon Basin in recent years, especially in the Guiana shield, where it is responsible for >90% of tot...

In mountains, grasslands managed for livestock production sustain local economies, culture and identity. However, their future fodder production is hi...

Woody riparian buffers (hereafter, 'woody buffers') are frequently considered as important to mitigate the effects of stressors on streams and rivers....

Habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, overexploitation and climate change pose familiar and new challenges to conserving natural populations throughout...

Concern about climate change and energy security is stimulating land-use change, which in turn precipitates social, economic and environmental respons...

Ecological intensification has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate the impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and insect pollin...

Climate and land-use change are expected to substantially alter future plant species distributions leading to higher extinction rates. However, little...

The land sharing-sparing framework aims to quantify the trade-off between food production and biodiversity conservation, but it has been criticized fo...