Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.030
Abstract: Effectively managing farming to meet food demand is vital for the future of biodiversity.1,2 Increasing yields on existing farmland can allow the abandonment (sparing) of low-yielding areas that subsequently recover as secondary forest.2-5 A key… read more here.
Keywords: sparing land; cattle farming; secondary forest; land ... See more keywords
Developing stakeholder-driven scenarios on land sharing and land sparing - Insights from five European case studies.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.050
Abstract: Empirical research on land sharing and land sparing has been criticized because preferences of local stakeholders, socio-economic aspects, a bundle of ecosystem services and the local context were only rarely integrated. Using storylines and scenarios… read more here.
Keywords: case studies; land; case; land sparing ... See more keywords
Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215796
Abstract: Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sharing (sprawl) and land-sparing (compaction) scenarios. Using three of the ten districts in Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approach… read more here.
Keywords: sharing sparing; landscape; evaluating urban; function land ... See more keywords