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Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

Land-use has transformed ecosystems over three quarters of the terrestrial surface, with massive repercussions on biodiversity. Land-use intensity is known to contribute to the effects of land-use on biodiversity, but the magnitude of this contribution remains uncertain. Here, we use a modified coun...

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Autores principales: Semenchuk, Philipp, Plutzar, Christoph, Kastner, Thomas, Matej, Sarah, Bidoglio, Giorgio, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Essl, Franz, Haberl, Helmut, Wessely, Johannes, Krausmann, Fridolin, Dullinger, Stefan
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35105884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28245-4
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author Semenchuk, Philipp
Plutzar, Christoph
Kastner, Thomas
Matej, Sarah
Bidoglio, Giorgio
Erb, Karl-Heinz
Essl, Franz
Haberl, Helmut
Wessely, Johannes
Krausmann, Fridolin
Dullinger, Stefan
author_facet Semenchuk, Philipp
Plutzar, Christoph
Kastner, Thomas
Matej, Sarah
Bidoglio, Giorgio
Erb, Karl-Heinz
Essl, Franz
Haberl, Helmut
Wessely, Johannes
Krausmann, Fridolin
Dullinger, Stefan
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description Land-use has transformed ecosystems over three quarters of the terrestrial surface, with massive repercussions on biodiversity. Land-use intensity is known to contribute to the effects of land-use on biodiversity, but the magnitude of this contribution remains uncertain. Here, we use a modified countryside species-area model to compute a global account of the impending biodiversity loss caused by current land-use patterns, explicitly addressing the role of land-use intensity based on two sets of intensity indicators. We find that land-use entails the loss of ~15% of terrestrial vertebrate species from the average 5 × 5 arcmin-landscape outside remaining wilderness areas and ~14% of their average native area-of-habitat, with a risk of global extinction for 556 individual species. Given the large fraction of global land currently used under low land-use intensity, we find its contribution to biodiversity loss to be substantial (~25%). While both sets of intensity indicators yield similar global average results, we find regional differences between them and discuss data gaps. Our results support calls for improved sustainable intensification strategies and demand-side actions to reduce trade-offs between food security and biodiversity conservation.
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spelling pubmed-88076042022-02-07 Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity Semenchuk, Philipp Plutzar, Christoph Kastner, Thomas Matej, Sarah Bidoglio, Giorgio Erb, Karl-Heinz Essl, Franz Haberl, Helmut Wessely, Johannes Krausmann, Fridolin Dullinger, Stefan Nat Commun Article Land-use has transformed ecosystems over three quarters of the terrestrial surface, with massive repercussions on biodiversity. Land-use intensity is known to contribute to the effects of land-use on biodiversity, but the magnitude of this contribution remains uncertain. Here, we use a modified countryside species-area model to compute a global account of the impending biodiversity loss caused by current land-use patterns, explicitly addressing the role of land-use intensity based on two sets of intensity indicators. We find that land-use entails the loss of ~15% of terrestrial vertebrate species from the average 5 × 5 arcmin-landscape outside remaining wilderness areas and ~14% of their average native area-of-habitat, with a risk of global extinction for 556 individual species. Given the large fraction of global land currently used under low land-use intensity, we find its contribution to biodiversity loss to be substantial (~25%). While both sets of intensity indicators yield similar global average results, we find regional differences between them and discuss data gaps. Our results support calls for improved sustainable intensification strategies and demand-side actions to reduce trade-offs between food security and biodiversity conservation. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8807604/ /pubmed/35105884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28245-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022, corrected publication 2022 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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Wessely, Johannes
Krausmann, Fridolin
Dullinger, Stefan
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