What is it about?
Economic models can figure out the lowest cost locations to harvest timber or grow crops. Plants and animals will be affected. We show how biodiversity can be included in the quantitative models, so that biodiversity can be considered and protected when decisions are made about locations for forestry and agriculture
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Why is it important?
We can protect biodiversity AND have a flourishing economy.
Perspectives
We can protect biodiversity and have a flourishing economy. But will we? What we address in this article are the shifts that can be made, potentially at low costs, amongst nearby areas, and through judicious choice of intensity - sometimes high intensity with lower land use, and in other locations lower intensity. As they say - further research is needed - to look at what is working, or could work well, in the forest industries to maintain both economic and social benefits and also maintain biodiversity.
Valerie M. Thomas
Georgia Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Incorporating biodiversity impacts in land use decisions, Ecological Modelling, November 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110852.
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