Choosing fit-for-purpose biodiversity impact indicators for agriculture in the Brazilian Cerrado ecoregion.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and acting on biodiversity loss requires robust tools linking biodiversity impacts to land use change, the biggest threat to terrestrial biodiversity. Here we estimate agriculture's impact on the Brazilian Cerrado's biodiversity using three approaches-countryside Species-Area Relationship, Species Threat Abatement and Restoration and Species Habitat Index. By using same input data, we show how indicator scope and design affects impact assessments and resulting decision-support. All indicators show agriculture expansion's increasing pressure on biodiversity. Results suggest that metrics are complementary, providing distinctly different insight into biodiversity change drivers and impacts. Meaningful applications of biodiversity indicators therefore require compatibility betwee

SUBMITTER: Rabeschini G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11842713 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature