Natural capital investments in China undermined by reclamation for cropland

Globally, rising food demand has caused widespread biodiversity and ecosystem services loss, prompting growing efforts in ecological protection and restoration. However, these efforts have been significantly undercut by further reclamation for cropland. Focusing on China, the world’s largest grain p...

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Autores principales: Kong, Lingqiao, Wu, Tong, Xiao, Yi, Xu, Weihua, Zhang, Xiaobiao, Daily, Gretchen C., Ouyang, Zhiyun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10627817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37749401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02198-3
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author Kong, Lingqiao
Wu, Tong
Xiao, Yi
Xu, Weihua
Zhang, Xiaobiao
Daily, Gretchen C.
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description Globally, rising food demand has caused widespread biodiversity and ecosystem services loss, prompting growing efforts in ecological protection and restoration. However, these efforts have been significantly undercut by further reclamation for cropland. Focusing on China, the world’s largest grain producer, we found that at the national level from 2000 to 2015, reclamation for cropland undermined gains in wildlife habitat and the ecosystem services of water retention, sandstorm prevention, carbon sequestration and soil retention by 113.8%, 63.4%, 52.5%, 29.0% and 10.2%, respectively. To achieve global sustainability goals, conflicts between inefficient reclamation for cropland and natural capital investment need to be alleviated.
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spelling pubmed-106278172023-11-08 Natural capital investments in China undermined by reclamation for cropland Kong, Lingqiao Wu, Tong Xiao, Yi Xu, Weihua Zhang, Xiaobiao Daily, Gretchen C. Ouyang, Zhiyun Nat Ecol Evol Brief Communication Globally, rising food demand has caused widespread biodiversity and ecosystem services loss, prompting growing efforts in ecological protection and restoration. However, these efforts have been significantly undercut by further reclamation for cropland. Focusing on China, the world’s largest grain producer, we found that at the national level from 2000 to 2015, reclamation for cropland undermined gains in wildlife habitat and the ecosystem services of water retention, sandstorm prevention, carbon sequestration and soil retention by 113.8%, 63.4%, 52.5%, 29.0% and 10.2%, respectively. To achieve global sustainability goals, conflicts between inefficient reclamation for cropland and natural capital investment need to be alleviated. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-09-25 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10627817/ /pubmed/37749401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02198-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10627817/
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