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A food system transformation pathway reconciles 1.5 °C global warming with improved health, environment and social inclusion

This study applies a global food and land system modelling framework to quantify the impact of 23 food system measures on 15 outcome indicators related to public health, the environment, social inclusion and the economy—from today until 2050.

Benjamin Leon Bodirsky
Felicitas Beier
Alexander Popp
ResearchOpen Access19 Dec 2025
Nature Food

Volume: 6, P: 1133-1152
Conservation outcomes of dietary transitions across different values of nature

This study examines the outcomes of dietary shifts across intrinsic and instrumental conservation perspectives, finding that most conservation benefits already come from a partial shift to healthier, more plant-based diets, whereas greater benefits depend on more targeted conservation action.

Patrick von Jeetze
Isabelle Weindl
Alexander Popp
ResearchOpen Access03 Oct 2025
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 8, P: 1130-1142
Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes

Small-scale farmers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to monocultures of oil palm and rubber to maximize income. Clough and colleagues demonstrate that this land-use change in Indonesia comes at a cost to a wide array of ecosystem functions and biodiversity.

Yann Clough
Vijesh V. Krishna
Stefan Scheu
ResearchOpen Access11 Oct 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

The authors measure numerous ecosystem functions across an elevational gradient on Mt Kilimanjaro and find that species richness impacts function more than species turnover across sites. They also show that variation in species richness impacts ecosystem functioning more strongly at the landscape scale than at the local scale.

Jörg Albrecht
Marcell K. Peters
Matthias Schleuning
Research20 Sept 2021
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 5, P: 1582-1593
Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations

Rainforest conversion to plantations driven by global demand for agricultural products generates high environmental costs. Here, the authors show that the high oil palm plantation production efficiency is associated with decreased carbon storage and slower organic matter cycling that affect ecosystem services.

Thomas Guillaume
Martyna M. Kotowska
Yakov Kuzyakov
ResearchOpen Access19 Jun 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-11
Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity

Direct and cascading land-use effects alter biomass and species richness of taxa across trophic levels ranging from microorganisms to birds in a multi-taxon research initiative in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Andrew D. Barnes
Kara Allen
Ulrich Brose
Research28 Aug 2017
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1511-1519
Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

Elevational trends in biodiversity and ecosystem functions across natural and anthropogenic habitats on Mount Kilimanjaro show that the effects of land use are strongly mediated by climate.

Marcell K. Peters
Andreas Hemp
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Research27 Mar 2019
Nature

Volume: 568, P: 88-92

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A food system transformation pathway reconciles 1.5 °C global warming with improved health, environment and social inclusion

Conservation outcomes of dietary transitions across different values of nature

Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes

Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations

Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity

Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

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