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Global Consequences of Land Use

Jonathan A. FoleyCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USARuth DeFriesCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAGregory P. AsnerCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USACarol BarfordCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAGordon B. BonanCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAStephen R. CarpenterCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAF. Stuart ChapinDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USAMichael T. CoeCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAGretchen C. DailyCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAHolly GibbsCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAJoseph H. HelkowskiCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USATracey HollowayCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAE. A. HowardCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAChristopher J. KucharikCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAChad MonfredaCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAJonathan A. PatzCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAI. Colin PrenticeCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USANavin RamankuttyCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USAP. K. SnyderCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA

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Аннотация

Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are being driven by the need to provide food, fiber, water, and shelter to more than six billion people. Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, along with considerable losses of biodiversity. Such changes in land use have enabled humans to appropriate an increasing share of the planet's resources, but they also potentially undermine the capacity of ecosystems to sustain food production, maintain freshwater and forest resources, regulate climate and air quality, and ameliorate infectious diseases. We face the challenge of managing trade-offs between immediate human needs and maintaining the capacity of the biosphere to provide goods and services in the long term.

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DOI: 10.1126/science.1111772

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