Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity and ecosystem service losses driven by land-use change are expected to intensify as a growing and more affluent global population requires more agricultural and forestry products, and teleconnections in the global economy lead to increasing remote environmental responsibility. By combining global biophysical and economic models, we show that, between the years 2000 and 2011, overall population and economic growth resulted in increasing total impacts on bird diversity and carbon sequestration globally, despite a reduction of land-use impacts per unit of gross domestic product (GDP). The exceptions were North America and Western Europe, where there was a reduction of forestry and agriculture impacts on nature accentuated by the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Biodiversity losses occ

SUBMITTER: Marques A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6443044 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature