#LandUseChange

2025-12-05

New publication: Functional diversity of #soil microbial communities increases with ecosystem development. #landabandonment #landusechange #carboncycle
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-665

Figure 1 in Ranheim Sveen et al. (2025): "Study design. Distribution of (a) sites across a national successional gradient in Sweden, based on (b) a paired grassland and forest sites comprising (c) managed, recently abandoned, and late successional grasslands together with fully afforested reference sites representing the successional endpoint. Soil samples were gathered in the field and sequenced with (d) amplicon and shotgun metagenomics to yield taxonomic and functional microbial community profiles, with the hypothesis that these would change (e) linearly, unimodally, or with threshold responses to succession. Note that the trends are shown as positive, i.e., with increasing diversity here, but may also be negative."
Eric Maugendre about carbonmaugendre@mas.to
2025-11-19
percent of land with forests replaced by cattle (2001-2015)
Brazil and Paraguay show large areas where cattle replaced more than 13% of tree cover

Caution note: "By overlaying recent maps of commodity production areas with maps of historical tree cover loss, this indicator shows where previously forested lands have been replaced by agriculture. Critically, this does not necessarily imply that current-day farms or pastures were directly responsible for past deforestation events. Furthermore, this approach does not allow monitoring of the potential indirect effects of these commodities on deforestation—for example, where expansion of a commodity displaces other forms of farming that contribute to deforestation elsewhere."

Source: Elizabeth Goldman, Mikaela Weisse for the World Resources Institute, https://gfr.wri.org/forest-extent-indicators/deforestation-agriculture
2025-11-14

Hơn 2,9ha đất nông nghiệp tại phường Vĩnh Hưng (quận Hoàng Mai cũ), Hà Nội, sắp được chuyển đổi mục đích sử dụng để phát triển thành khu tổ hợp gồm chung cư, văn phòng, trung tâm thương mại, dịch vụ và trường học. Quyết định được phê duyệt cho Công ty Tân Á thực hiện dự án này nhằm đáp ứng nhu cầu đô thị hóa và phát triển hạ tầng khu vực.

#HaNoi #UrbanDevelopment #RealEstate #LandUseChange #DuAn #BatDongSan #ChungCu #VanPhong #TruongHoc #VinhHung #HoangMai

vietnamnet.vn/hon-2-9ha-dat

2025-10-31

29-Oct-2025
has lost 75 percent of its natural plant species over the last century
Human-driven is likely the primary cause of this loss on Mount Kilimanjaro’s lower slopes

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

2025-08-28
Graphical abstract Muchalak et al. (2025).
2025-01-09

My take that no one asked for: we should be paying Brazilians more for the oxygen that their forests produce than for the steaks that they produce after cutting down the forests.

How much do we pay for oxygen? $0. Does that mean it is devoid of value? Of course not. It simply means that our markets are centered on absolutely the wrong things.

newsie.social/@allthebrazilian

#deforestation
#agriculture
#meat
#LandUseChange
#ecocide
#ClimateChange
#oxygen

Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org
2024-08-31

The #QGIS Molusce plugin is really impressive: tons of downloads and lots of impact in the research community

Find out more about the latest developments in the latest #QGISOpenDay recording:

fosstodon.org/@qgis/1130566077

#LandUseChange #GISChat #GIS #GISience

2024-08-31

If you missed yesterday's #QGISOpenDay, here's your chance to catch up on #LanduseChange Simulations in #QGIS using the #Molusce plugin

Thank you, @Amz for hosting again and @nextgis for presenting

#GISChat #OSGeo

youtube.com/watch?v=nFaXCLhQ7q

Eric Maugendre about carbonmaugendre@mas.to
2024-08-31

"The overall Eastern European carbon sink shows a declining trend [due to] a saturation effect of the regrowth in abandoned former agricultural areas, combined with an increase in wood harvest, particularly in European Russia, as well as more frequent climate-induced forest disturbances such as droughts."

nature.com/articles/s43247-023

#forests #forest #CO2 #emissions #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #deforestation #carbonFootprint #climateChange #furniture #Russia #Europe #landUse #landUseChange

Sean PangSEH_Pang
2024-08-27

🌿🚨New Paper🚨🌿
Our latest in Nature Sustainability uncovers and impacts on 1,498 tree distributions in . Only ONE pathway, of , led to a positive future. All others led to severe losses, the difference between them being which groups gets it worst! We highlight an urgent need for integrated strategies that address both climate change and land-use change. We must prioritise SSP1-2.6!

rdcu.be/dR64Z

@StarkRG @Brad_Rosenheim

In 2015, @rahmstorf and Thornalley in 2018 did #AMOC reconstructions of over 1ky from different proxies. And both start the rapid decline 1850. #Thornalley 's study was about warmwater #ocean creatures moving up to Iceland and some other stuff in the Labrador Sea. Don't recall what Rahmstorf's proxies were. But his data before 1800 is matches tree ring widths from Sweden and UK. Maybe those were his proxies, dunno.
Thornalley's paper is open access and Ext Fig 7 shows the early onset of the rapid slowdown nature.com/articles/s41586-018

You can download and plot both from this repository of Caesar's 2021 paper github.com/ncahill89/AMOC-Anal

Just wanted to say, the Caribbean isn't the only "one location" where warming kicked in due to CO2 from #LandUseChange alone before fossil fuels contributed to #CO2 growth.
LandUseChange in the 1610-event and in the WW2-event due to population decline in the Americas, and Europe and China respectively, made AMOC hickup bigly, I think.

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0PaulWermer@sfba.social
2024-03-24

The topic of biomass is complex, so it's easy to bafflegab a green screen for #climate and #ecosystem damaging practices. #LandUseChange, especially destruction of intact forest ecosystems, is one of those damaging practices.

#Drax has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to do mislead about the impacts of their operations . Please sign the petition on the link below; regulation is the only way to change their predatory and duplicitous behavior.

us.engagingnetworks.app/page/e

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