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

Land use is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but disentangling the contribution of its various components is challenging. Here, the authors partition the role of land use type and intensity in explaining global patterns of impending species losses for terrestrial vertebrates.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Philipp Semenchuk, Christoph Plutzar, Thomas Kastner, Sarah Matej, Giorgio Bidoglio, Karl-Heinz Erb, Franz Essl, Helmut Haberl, Johannes Wessely, Fridolin Krausmann, Stefan Dullinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28245-4