Putting species back on the map: devising a robust method for quantifying the biodiversity impacts of land conversion
América P. Durán, Jonathan M.H. Green, Christopher D. West, Piero Visconti, Neil D. Burgess, Malika Virah-Sawmy, Andrew Balmford
The paper develops a biodiversity footprint indicator to quantify the impacts of land conversion on species, showing that soybean expansion has the greatest per-unit-area impact in the Cerrado Biome.
bioRxiv · Oct 18, 2018 · PreprintEcology