Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1308-1318

  Kehoe, Laura ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Meyer, Carsten ^b   Levers, Christian ^a   Václavík, Tomáš ^c,d   Kreft, Holger ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Endemism richness; Global agriculture; Land use change; Land use intensity; Sustainable intensification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMISM; LAND USE CHANGE; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABILITY; VERTEBRATE;

CHINA; EAST AFRICA; MESOAMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84943587308     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12359     Document Type: Article

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