Global consequences of land use

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5734, 2005, Pages 570-574

  Foley, Jonathan A ^a   DeFries, Ruth ^b   Asner, Gregory P ^c   Barford, Carol ^a   Bonan, Gordon ^d   Carpenter, Stephen R ^a   Chapin, F Stuart ^e   Coe, Michael T ^a,i   Daily, Gretchen C ^f   Gibbs, Holly K ^a   Helkowski, Joseph H ^a   Holloway, Tracey ^a   Howard, Erica A ^a   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a   Monfreda, Chad ^a   Patz, Jonathan A ^a   Prentice, I Colin ^g   Ramankutty, Navin ^a   Snyder, Peter K ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

ⁱ WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FARMS; FOOD PRODUCTS; FORESTRY; WATER; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

BIOSPHERE; HUMAN NEEDS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; SHELTER;

LAND USE;

CARBON; FERTILIZER; FRESH WATER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COFFEE; CROPLAND; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LAND USE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PEST MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WILDLIFE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; TREES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD; FORESTRY; LAND USE; WATER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 22744457652     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1111772     Document Type: Review

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64. We acknowledge the important contributions of both the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Ecosystems and Land Use Change and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in spurring these ideas. We also wish to thank S. Donner, D. Foley, and anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. We are grateful to M. Sternitzky and N. Olejniczak for the maps and illustrations and to K. Flick and C. Webb for help with the references. The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.