Extent of similarity between agricultural and natural land covers shapes how biodiversity responds to agricultural expansion at landscape scales
S. Wilson, N. Alavi-Shoushtari, D. Pouliot, G. W. Mitchell
The study examines how ecosystem context influences biodiversity responses to agricultural expansion, finding that species diversity declines at lower agricultural extents in ecosystems with less similarity between natural and agricultural land covers.
bioRxiv · Apr 22, 2020Ecology