Landscape diversity is critical to enhance agricultural sustainability and resilience. A realistic and achievable route towards adding complexity and biodiversity into agricultural landscapes may be through precision conservation.
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The author wishes to thank N. Haan, G. P. Robertson and N. Haddad for their valuable comments. Financial support was provided by USDA/NIFA (awards 2019-67012-29595 and 2015-68007-23133), the US National Science Foundation’s Long-term Ecological Research Program (award 1637653), the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (awards DESC0018409 and DE-FC02-07ER64494), and Michigan State University AgBioResearch.
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Basso, B. Precision conservation for a changing climate. Nat Food 2, 322–323 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00283-z
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