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Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

Kehoe, Laura, Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo, Polaina, Ester, Estes, Lyndon, Kreft, Holger, Kuemmerle, Tobias·2017·Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Agriculture is the leading driver of biodiversity loss. However, its future impact on biodiversity remains unclear, especially because agricultural intensification is often neglected, and high path-dependency is assumed when forecasting agricultural development-although the past suggests that shock events leading to considerable agricultural change occur frequently. Here, we investigate the possible impacts on biodiversity of pathways of expansion and intensification. Our pathways are not built to reach equivalent production targets, and therefore they should not be directly compared; they instead highlight areas at risk of high biodiversity loss across the entire option space of possible agricultural change. Based on an extensive database of biodiversity responses to agriculture, we find 30% of species richness and 31% of species abundances potentially lost because of agricultural expansion across the Amazon and Afrotropics. Only 21% of high-risk expansion areas in the Afrotropics overlap with protected areas (compared with 43% of the Neotropics). Areas at risk of biodiversity loss from intensification are found in India, Eastern Europe and the Afromontane region (7% species richness, 13% abundance loss). Many high-risk regions are not adequately covered by conservation prioritization schemes, and have low national conservation spending and high agricultural growth. Considering rising agricultural demand, we highlight areas where timely land-use planning may proactively mitigate biodiversity loss.

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Authors: Kehoe, L., Romero-Muñoz, A., Polaina, E., Estes, L., Kreft, H., & Kuemmerle, T.
Affiliations: University of Victoria (CA)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
Clark University (US)
University of Göttingen (DE)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
Corresponding author: Kehoe, Laura
ORCID: Kehoe, Laura
Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo
Polaina, Ester
Estes, Lyndon
Kreft, Holger
Kuemmerle, Tobias
Venue: Nature Ecology & Evolution
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2017-07-17
Volume: 1
Issue: 8
Pages: 1129-1135
ISSN: 2397-334X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0234-3
OpenAlex: W2735707112
Semantic Scholar: d50255ff8fbb433b9c5924f463659d3ec83be80d
Cited by: 395
References: 65
Citations by year: 2026: 43 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 16
FWCI: 11.94
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Nature Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Clark Digital Commons (Clark University) (submittedVersion)
DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
GRO (submittedVersion)
Funders: Einstein Stiftung Berlin
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Keywords: biodiversity loss, agricultural expansion, agricultural intensification, land use change, species richness, species abundance, Amazon, Afrotropical region, protected areas, conservation prioritization, agricultural demand, land use planning
MeSH terms: Agriculture, Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Vertebrates, Biodiversity

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