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A recipe to reverse the loss of nature

How can the decline in global biodiversity be reversed, given the need to supply food? Computer modelling provides a way to assess the effectiveness of combining various conservation and food-system interventions to tackle this issue.
  1. Brett A. Bryan

    1. Brett A. Bryan is at the Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia.

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  2. Carla L. Archibald

    1. Carla L. Archibald is at the Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia.

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Nature is in trouble, and its plight will probably become even more precarious unless we do something about it1. Writing in Nature, Leclère et al.2 quantify what might be needed to reverse this deeply worrying path while also feeding people’s increasingly voracious appetites. The authors’ answer is to team ambitious conservation measures with food-system transformation in the hope of reversing the trend of global terrestrial biodiversity loss.

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Nature 585, 503-504 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02502-2

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