Precision conservation for a changing climate

May 31, 2021 - Bruno Basso

Agricultural landscapes, once diverse and heterogenous, are now increasingly simplified, with biodiversity-based ecosystem services drastically reduced. There is abundant evidence of nature’s contributions to society, but agricultural intensification continues to undermine these contributions through soil erosion, water and soil quality degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity loss at local and landscape scales.

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Agricultural landscapes, once diverse and heterogenous, are now increasingly simplified, with biodiversity-based ecosystem services drastically reduced. There is abundant evidence of nature’s contributions to society, but agricultural intensification continues to undermine these contributions through soil erosion, water and soil quality degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity loss at local and landscape scales.

Read the entire artilce at Nature Food.