Models of the land system are essential to our understanding of the magnitude and impacts
of climate change. These models are required to represent a large number of processes in …

Abstract Changes in climate, technology, policy and prices affect agricultural and rural
development. To evaluate whether this development is sustainable, impacts of these …

Freshwater systems provide various resources and services. These are often vulnerable to
climate change and other pressures. Therefore, enhancing resilience to climate change is …

Ecological networks facilitate the mobility and vitality of species populations by providing a
network of habitat patches that are embedded in a traversable landscape matrix. Climate …

In the development of the Dutch National Ecological Network, many hectares of arable land
are converted to nature areas to protect plant and animal species. This encompasses …

Agent-based models (ABMs) have long been applied in economics and social science
research. The combination or coupling of these models with those of natural systems is a …

Context This paper describes the environmental consequences of agricultural adaptation on
eutrophication of the nearby ecological network for a study area in the Netherlands. More …

Context Increasing the amount of green infrastructure, defined as small-scale natural
landscape elements, has been named as a climate adaptation measure for biodiversity …

The adoption of sustainable soil management practices such as the use of green waste from
road‐side management and nature reserves is thwarted in practice by hesitance on the side …

Context Climate change can directly affect habitats within ecological networks, but may also
have indirect effects on network quality by inducing land use change. The relative impact of …