Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes

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Land-sparing agriculture sustains higher levels of avian functional diversity than land sharing

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(2019) Lourens Poorter et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The impact of secondary forest regeneration on ground-dwelling ant communities in the Tropical Andes

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Achieving low-carbon cattle ranching in the Amazon: “pasture sudden death” as a window of opportunity

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Land sharing vs. land sparing in the dry Caribbean lowlands: A dung beetles’ perspective

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Changes in Bird Functional Diversity across Multiple Land Uses: Interpretations of Functional Redundancy Depend on Functional Group Identity

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Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

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A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

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Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

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On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity

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A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

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Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming?

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