Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 536, Issue , 2015, Pages 419-431

  Machovina, Brian ^a,b   Feeley, Kenneth J ^a,b   Ripple, William J ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Climate change; Livestock; Meat consumption; Permaculture

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD PRODUCTS; FOSSIL FUELS; MAMMALS; NUTRIENTS; NUTRITION; WATER POLLUTION;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION; LIVESTOCK; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; MEAT CONSUMPTION; PERMACULTURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; BUSHMEAT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD INTAKE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINANT; TROPICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA; CHINA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MEAT;

EID: 84938151009     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.022     Document Type: Review

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