A spatially explicit data-driven approach to assess the effect of agricultural land occupation on species groups

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 758-769

  Elshout, Pieter M F ^a   Van Zelm, Rosalie ^a   Karuppiah, Ramkumar ^b   Laurenzi, Ian J ^b   Huijbregts, Mark A J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Characterization factor; Crop cultivation; Land occupation; Life cycle impact assessment; Species richness

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL SPECIES; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOME; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; CROPLAND; ELAEIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; PANICOIDEAE; PLANTATION; POOIDEAE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAIGA; TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VASCULAR PLANT;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; ELAEIS; MAMMALIA; PANICOIDEAE; POOIDEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84899073492     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-014-0701-x     Document Type: Article

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