Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

  • Ingo Grass,
  • Christoph Kubitza,
  • Vijesh V. Krishna,
  • Marife D. Corre,
  • Oliver Mußhoff,
  • Peter Pütz,
  • Jochen Drescher,
  • Katja Rembold,
  • Eka Sulpin Ariyanti,
  • Andrew D. Barnes,
  • Nicole Brinkmann,
  • Ulrich Brose,
  • Bernhard Brümmer,
  • Damayanti Buchori,
  • Rolf Daniel,
  • Kevin F. A. Darras,
  • Heiko Faust,
  • Lutz Fehrmann,
  • Jonas Hein,
  • Nina Hennings,
  • Purnama Hidayat,
  • Dirk Hölscher,
  • Malte Jochum,
  • Alexander Knohl,
  • Martyna M. Kotowska,
  • Valentyna Krashevska,
  • Holger Kreft,
  • Christoph Leuschner,
  • Neil Jun S. Lobite,
  • Rawati Panjaitan,
  • Andrea Polle,
  • Anton M. Potapov,
  • Edwine Purnama,
  • Matin Qaim,
  • Alexander Röll,
  • Stefan Scheu,
  • Dominik Schneider,
  • Aiyen Tjoa,
  • Teja Tscharntke,
  • Edzo Veldkamp,
  • Meike Wollni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15013-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Identifying economic and ecological trade-offs of land-use transitions is important to ensure sustainability. Here, Grass et al. find biodiversity-profit trade-offs in tropical land-use transitions in Sumatra, and show that targeted landscape planning is needed to increase land-use efficiency while ensuring socio-ecological sustainability.