Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition) |
Editors | Samuel M. Scheiner |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 579-594 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128225622 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780323984348 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Abstract
Important land use processes are agricultural development and intensification, settlement, and extraction of natural resources. In response to human land use, the earth's land cover has changed from a mosaic of native ecosystems, to an increasingly impacted mixture of degraded and fragmented habitats. In the last three centuries, primary forests have declined 20%, natural grasslands and savannas have declined nearly 40%, whereas croplands have increased 390%, and pastures 460%. Almost 39% of earth's land surface is transformed into agricultural land and settlements, and an additional 37% of global land without such use has become embedded within these anthromes.
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Keywords
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Deforestation
- Degradation
- Fragmentation
- Intensification
- Land cover
- Land use
- Population
- Settlement and Urbanization