Land-Use Issues

Kees Klein Goldewijk

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00274-7

Land-Use Issues

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition)
Publisher	Academic Press
Pages	579-594
Number of pages	15
Volume	3
Edition	Third
ISBN (Print)	978-0-323-98434-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00274-7
Publication status	Published - 2023

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