species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …-faire economy is shown to result in an underprovision of habitat, making the case for land use restrictions for nature protection …

Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned. …

issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …

This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more "forward looking" societies, with a small discount rate and a high …

We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in "rich" developed countries (North), but very low in "poor" developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South - as stipulated in the Convention on …

forest cover, with stronger effects in areas that face pressure of economic development. We then identify several open areas … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …

biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …

Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity … incomplete under free trade because of the decrease in land productivity. Pesticides allow farmers to reduce these biodiversity … biodiversity effects. …