ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USE

Agricultural use of wetlands: opportunities and limitations.

BACKGROUND Wetlands are species-rich habitats performing valuable ecosystem services such as flood protection, water quality enhancement, food chain support and carbon sequestration. Worldwide, wetlands have been drained to convert them into agricultural land or industrial and urban areas. A realistic estimate is that 50 % of the world's wetlands have been lost. SCOPE This paper reviews the r...

Relating Land Use and Select Environmental Impacts to U.S. Consumption with a Focus on Agricultural Products

Agricultural land management options following large-scale environmental contamination.

The recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, have raised questions about the accumulation of radionuclides in soils, the transfer in the food chain, and the possibility for restricted land use in the foreseeable future. This article summarizes what is generally understood about the application of agricultural countermeasures as a land management option to reduce the...

Are agricultural land-use models able to predict changes in land-use intensity?

Land-use and land-cover change research needs to pay more attention to processes of land-cover modification, and especially to agricultural land intensification. The objective of this paper is to review the different modelling approaches that have been used in land-use/land-cover change research from the perspective of their utility for the study and prediction of changes in land-use intensific...

Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity

Geography Department, HumboldtUniversity Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, HumboldtUniversity Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany, Free Floater Research Group Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography, Georg August-University of G€ottingen, 37077 G€ottingen, Germany, Depar...