Excessive land usage


  • Destructive intensification of land use

Nature

Intensifying land use has generally brought with it a simplification of ecosystems and a reduction of biodiversity. Important causes and disturbances are deforestation, fragmentation of ecosystems, regulation of water streams, monocultures, selective breeding, abandoning of traditional crop varieties and livestock breeds, excessive application of agrochemicals and urbanization.

Incidence

Land-cover changes contribute around one-fifth of annual carbon dioxide releases.


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