Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing.
@article{Butsic2015UsingOM, title={Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing.}, author={Van Butsic and Tobias Kuemmerle}, journal={Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America}, year={2015}, volume={25 3}, pages={ 589-95 } }
Aligning food production with biodiversity conservation is one of the greatest challenges of our time. One framing of this challenge is the land-sharing vs. land-sparing debate. Much empirical research has focused on identifying the relationship between agricultural yields and species populations, and using the relative number of species with particular relationships to inform landscape-level management. We feel this is misguided, as such an approach does not guarantee the existence of every…
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