Biodiversity loss

Change of land use

Quote from Seabloom et al. (2020):

Conversion of land to human-dominated uses, such as agriculture, is the single greatest terrestrial extinction threat and also leads to biological invasions and alterations of many ecosystem processes (Pimm et al., 1995; Seabloom et al., 2006; Ellis, 2011; Newbold et al., 2016; Higgins, 2017; Tilman et al., 2017; Barger et al., 2018).

See also

Wikipedia:Biodiversity loss

References

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Seabloom, E.W., Williams, J.W., Slayback, D., Stoms, D.M., Viers, J.H. and Dobson, A.P., 2006. Human impacts, plant invasion, and imperiled plant species in California. Ecological Applications, 16(4), pp.1338-1350. [1338:HIPIAI2.0.CO;2 DOI] PDF

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Tilman, D., Clark, M., Williams, D.R., Kimmel, K., Polasky, S. and Packer, C., 2017. Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention. Nature, 546(7656), pp.73-81. DOI