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SUBMITTER: Johnson JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4151777 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johnson Justin Andrew JA Runge Carlisle Ford CF Senauer Benjamin B Foley Jonathan J Polasky Stephen S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140811 34
Feeding a growing and increasingly affluent world will require expanded agricultural production, which may require converting grasslands and forests into cropland. Such conversions can reduce carbon storage, habitat provision, and other ecosystem services, presenting difficult societal trade-offs. In this paper, we use spatially explicit data on agricultural productivity and carbon storage in a global analysis to find where agricultural extensification should occur to meet growing demand while m ...[more]