Strategic land reallocation enhances carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection without compromising agricultural productivity in Great Britain.

ABSTRACT: Due to the negative environmental consequences of current land-use, and land's important role regarding carbon, biodiversity and food security, there is an urgent interest in reforming land-use. Policy objectives for tree planting to sequester carbon and the protection of land to increase biodiversity require land reallocation, which leads to inevitable trade-offs. Here, we evaluate the trade-offs between three objectives for rural land: agricultural/forestry production, carbon sequestration and biodiversity, by calculating metrics for these three objectives on a 500 m grid covering Great Britain. We use a multi-objective optimisation that allows us to explore the full option space of possible land conversions and identify the land allocations that entail limited trade-offs. Our results sh

SUBMITTER: Gall SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12479351 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature