Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature.

By W. Laurance, J. Sayer, K. Cassman. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Impact of landscape composition and configuration on forest specialist and generalist bird species in the fragmented Lacandona rainforest, Mexico (2015, background): “Continuous rainforests are being rapidly converted to humanmodified tropical landscapes (HMTLs), largely due to accelerated human population growth and increasing demands for agricultural lands and forest products (Laurance et al., 2014).”
Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries (2015, background): “…investments are planned for many tropical regions and will soon open most of the world’s remaining remote and pristine forests to commercial interests seeking land for estate crops, including industrial forest plantations (Weng et al., 2013; Edwards et al., 2014; Laurance et al., 2014a).”
Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions (2018, neutral): “South America has recently been a global hotspot of agricultural expansion and intensification, triggering major losses in terms of biodiversity and no-provisioning ecosystem services (Aide et al., 2013; Laurance et al., 2014; Ramankutty, Foley, Norman, & Mcsweeney, 2002).”
Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “Expansion of crop land area to meet the world's growing food, fuel, and fiber needs has received much attention in recent years due to forest encroachment and the resulting loss of carbon sequestration and biodiversity that are critical global public goods (Laurance et al., 2014).”
Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function (2014, background): “Even so, such ecosystems are vulnerable to fire regimes altered by humans (e.g., Briant et al., 2010; Armenteras et al., 2013; Laurance et al., 2014).”
Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation (2015, background): “Fueled by unabated human population growth, global food demand is escalating, and the current trajectory of agricultural expansion will have serious negative long-term consequences for the preservation of the planet’s biodiversity (Tilman et al. 2011; Laurance et al. 2014).”
Anthropogenic disturbance of tropical forests threatens pollination services to acai palm in the Amazon river delta (2018, background): “Anthropogenic disturbance of tropical forests threatens not only biodiversity but also the vital ecosystem services that forests provide for local communities (Laurance et al., 2014).”
Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats: disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects (2016, background): “This erosion of biological diversity has repeatedly been 30 associated with human population growth and rising per-capita consumption (Laurance et al 2014) whose future increases are expected to be greatest in the tropics where much of the planet’s biodiversity resides (Bradshaw et al 2008; Gibson…”