Shifting agriculture is the dominant driver of forest disturbance in threatened forest species’ ranges

Spatial overlaps between forest disturbance drivers and threatened species’ ranges reveal that shifting agriculture is a major driver of forest biodiversity loss at a global scale, as demonstrated by a global analysis of forest disturbance and threatened vertebrate species distributions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taku Kadoya, Yayoi Takeuchi, Yushin Shinoda, Keisuke Nansai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00434-5