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Relocating Built-up Land for Biodiversity Conservation in an Uncertain Future by Wenze Yue; Qiushi Zhou; Mengmeng Li; Jasper van Vliet is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Land use changes associated with habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation exert profoundly detrimental impacts on biodiversity conservation. Urban development is one of the prevailing anthropogenic disturbances to wildlife habitat, because these developments are often considered permanent and irreversible. As a result, the potential benefits of built-up land relocation for biodiversity conservation have remained largely unexplored in environmental management practices. Here, we analyze recent built-up land relocation in Shanghai and explore how such restoration programs can affect future land change trajectories with regards to biodiversity conservation. Results show that 187.78 km2 built-up land in Shanghai was restored to natural habitat between 2017 and 2020. Further simulation analysis highlights that relocating built-up land can substantially promote conserve biodiversity. In particular, there would be less habitat loss, better natural habitat quality and more species habitat-suitable range under the scenarios with built-up land relocation. Species extinction assessment suggest that amphibians, mammals, and reptiles will all have an increasingly high extinction risk withou

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Author

Wenze Yue; Qiushi Zhou; Mengmeng Li; Jasper van Vliet

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)