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SUBMITTER: Eigenbrod F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608111 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
One earth (Cambridge, Mass.) 20201001 4
The increasing expansion of cropland is major driver of global carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. However, predicting plausible future global distributions of croplands remains challenging. Here, we show that, in general, existing global data aligned with classical economic theories of expansion explain the current (1992) global extent of cropland reasonably well, but not recent expansion (1992-2015). Deviations from models of cropland extent in 1992 ("frontierness") can be used to improve ...[more]