Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation

Large conservation gains possible for global biodiversity facets

(2017) Laura J. Pollock et al.   NATURE

Govern land as a global commons

(2017) Felix Creutzig   NATURE

Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes

(2016) Ralf Seppelt et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Assumption-versus data-based approaches to summarizing species’ ranges

(2016) A. Townsend Peterson et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Hotspots of uncertainty in land-use and land-cover change projections: a global-scale model comparison

(2016) Reinhard Prestele et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature?

(2016) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

Responses of medium- and large-sized bird diversity to irrigation in dry cereal agroecosystems across spatial scales

(2015) Angel De Frutos et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity

(2015) Laura Kehoe et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Closing Yield Gaps: How Sustainable Can We Be?

(2015) Prajal Pradhan et al.   PLoS One

The Effects of Agricultural Technological Progress on Deforestation: What Do We Really Know?

(2014) N. B. Villoria et al.   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Globalizing Conservation Efforts to Save Species and Enhance Food Production

(2014) Ricardo Dobrovolski et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Conservation planning in agricultural landscapes: hotspots of conflict between agriculture and nature

(2014) Gorm E. Shackelford et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Farmland abandonment: threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review

(2014) Cibele Queiroz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Putting meaning back into “sustainable intensification”

(2014) Jacqueline Loos et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

(2014) Mao-Ning Tuanmu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism

(2014) Federico Montesino Pouzols et al.   NATURE

Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

(2014) B. Phalan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment

(2014) P. C. West et al.   SCIENCE

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

(2014) Lawrence N. Hudson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models

(2013) Hugo Valin et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies

(2013) Saul A. Cunningham et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Estimating crop yield potential at regional to national scales

(2013) Justin van Wart et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Land cover change or land-use intensification: simulating land system change with a global-scale land change model

(2013) Sanneke van Asselen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?

(2013) M. J. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown

(2012) Henrique Miguel Pereira et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

(2012) Teja Tscharntke et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

(2012) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   NATURE

International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations

(2012) M. Lenzen et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

What conservationists need to know about farming

(2012) A. Balmford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hot moments for biodiversity conservation

(2012) Volker C. Radeloff et al.   Conservation Letters

Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

(2012) Deepak K. Ray et al.   Nature Communications

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agriculture-a key element for conservation in the developing world

(2011) Hugh L. Wright et al.   Conservation Letters

The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis

(2010) Kathleen Neumann et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland

(2010) Flavia Geiger et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

MIRCA2000-Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high-resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling

(2010) Felix T. Portmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Evaluating the Relative Environmental Impact of Countries

(2010) Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al.   PLoS One

The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model

(2010) I. Perfecto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes

(2009) David B. Lobell et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Intensity of agricultural land-use and farmland birds in the Baltic States

(2008) Irina Herzon et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Determination of national conservation responsibilities for species conservation in regions with multiple political jurisdictions

(2008) Dirk S. Schmeller et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Human land use, agriculture, pesticides and losses of imperiled species

(2008) Katherine E. Gibbs et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

(2008) Navin Ramankutty et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

On the relationship between farmland biodiversity and land-use intensity in Europe

(2008) D Kleijn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES