The feed-food competition for environmental and economic resources raises increasing
concerns about the production and supply of protein for the global livestock sector. Risks to …

Deforestation and fires in the Amazon are serious problems affecting climate, and land use
and land cover (LULC) changes. In recent decades, the Amazon biome area has suffered …

In recent years, the Cerrado deforestation has increased considerably, reaching rates higher
than in the Amazonian realm. Although the effects of deforestation are well known, the …

Habitat destruction and overexploitation are the main threats to biodiversity and where they
co‐occur, their combined impact is often larger than their individual one. Yet, detailed …

Although pig systems start from a favourable baseline of environmental impact compared to
other livestock systems, there is still scope to reduce their emissions and further mitigate …

Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change
and biodiversity loss are not fully understood. While there is evidence that habitat loss is an …

Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers,
particularly in the world's rapidly disappearing tropical and subtropical dry forests. Pathways …

Understanding the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and the agents of such
drivers is important for introducing appropriate policy interventions. Here, we identified …

Land-use change is a global threat to biodiversity, but how land-use change affects species
beyond the direct effect of habitat loss remains poorly understood. We developed an …

Biodiversity loss may decrease the resistance of ecosystems to disturbance. While many
studies have tested the effects of species richness on the ability of communities to resist …