The scale, rate, and intensity of humans’ environmental impact has engendered broad discussion about how to find plausible pathways of development that hold the most promise for fostering a better future in the Anthropocene. However, the dominance of dystopian visions of irreversible environmenta...
Bennett, Elena M.
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Solan, Martin
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Biggs, Reinette
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McPhearson, Timon
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Norström, Albert V.
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Olsson, Per
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Pereira, Laura
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Peterson, Garry D.
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Raudsepp-Hearne, Ciara
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Biermann, Frank
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Carpenter, Stephen R.
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Ellis, Erle C.
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Hichert, Tanja
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Galaz, Victor
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Lahsen, Myanna
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Milkoreit, Manjana
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Martin López, Berta
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Nicholas, Kimberly A.
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Preiser, Rika
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Vince, Gaia
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Xu, Jianchu
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[Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene]
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Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene
The first decade of the new millennium saw a boom in rubber prices. This led to rapid and widespread land conversion to monoculture rubber plantations in continental SE Asia, where natural rubber production has increased >50% since 2000. Here, we analyze the subsequent spread of rubber between 20...
Ahrends, Antje
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Hollingsworth PM
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Ziegler, A.D.
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Fox JM
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Chen, H.
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Su Y
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Xu, Jianchu
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[Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods]
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Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
Climate change is projected to impact on biodiversity conservation and the effectiveness of the existing protected area network in biologically rich Yunnan Province of southwestern China. A statistically derived bioclimatic stratification is used to analyze projected bioclimatic conditions across...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Xu, Jianchu
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Wanga M
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Li Z
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[Projected impact of climate change on the effectiveness of the existing protected area network for biodiversity conservation within Yunnan Province, China]
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Projected impact of climate change on the effectiveness of the existing protected area network for biodiversity conservation within Yunnan Province, China
New hybrid forms of climate change adaptation combining local and nonlocal/scientific knowledge are emerging across the Asian Highlands region. Yet, while local adaptive capacity can be based on place-based knowledge that governments often lack, communities still need assistance from states to be...
Xu, Jianchu
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Grumbine, R. Edward
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[Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands]
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Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands
The tree rhododendrons include the most widely distributed Himalayan Rhododendron species belonging to the subsection Arborea. Distributions of two members of this sub-species were modelled using bioclimatic data for current conditions (1950–2000). A subset of the least correlated bioclimatic var...
Ranjitkar S
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Kindt, Roeland
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Sujakhu NM
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Hart R
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Guo W
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Yang X
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Shrestha, Krishna K.
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Xu, Jianchu
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Luedeling, Eike
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[Separation of the bioclimatic spaces of Himalayan tree rhododendron species predicted by ensemble suitability models]
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Separation of the bioclimatic spaces of Himalayan tree rhododendron species predicted by ensemble suitability models
Agroforestry systems and tree cover on agricultural land make an important contribution to climate change mitigation, but are not systematically accounted for in either global carbon budgets or national carbon accounting. This paper assesses the role of trees on agricultural land and their signif...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Xu, Jianchu
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Ahrends, Antje
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Wang, Mingcheng
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[Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets]
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Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets