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Concentrating vs. spreading our footprint: how to meet humanity's needs at least cost to nature by Balmford, A.

“…How to feed, house, clothe and power 11 billion of us without eliminating very many species and wrecking Earth's climate is perhaps this century's greatest…”
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Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies by Garnett, T., Appleby, M. C., Balmford, A., Bateman, I. J., Benton, T. G., Bloomer, P., Burlingame, B., Dawkins, M., Dolan, L., Fraser, D., Herrero, M., Hoffmann, I., Smith, P., Thornton, P. K., Toulmin, C., Vermeulen, S. J., Godfrey, H. C. J.

“…Clearer understanding is needed of the premises underlying SI and how it relates to food-system priorities. Food security is high on the global policy agenda…”
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Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities by Naidoo, R, Balmford, A, Costanza, R, Fisher, B, Green, R.E, Lehner, B, Malcolm, T.R, Ricketts, T.H

“…Global efforts to conserve biodiversity have the potential to deliver economic benefits to people (i.e., "ecosystem services"). However, regions for which…”
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Filling in biodiversity threat gaps by Joppa, L. N., O'Connor, B., Visconti, P., Smith, C., Geldmann, J., Hoffmann, M., Watson, J. E. M., Butchart, S. H. M., Virah-Sawmy, M., Halpern, B. S., Ahmed, S. E., Balmford, A., Sutherland, W. J., Harfoot, M., Hilton-Taylor, C., Foden, W., Di Minin, E., Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Hutton, J., Burgess, N. D.

“…Only 5% of global threat data sets meet a “gold standard” The diversity of life on Earth—which provides vital services to humanity ( 1 )—stems from the…”
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Assessing strategies to reconcile agriculture and bird conservation in the temperate grasslands of South America by Dotta, G., Phalan, B., Silva, T. W., Green, R., Balmford, A.

“…Globally, agriculture is the greatest source of threat to biodiversity, through both ongoing conversion of natural habitat and intensification of existing…”
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Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: A GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling by Swetnam, R.D., Fisher, B., Mbilinyi, B.P., Munishi, P.K.T., Willcock, S., Ricketts, T., Mwakalila, S., Balmford, A., Burgess, N.D., Marshall, A.R., Lewis, S.L.

“…We present a GIS method to interpret qualitatively expressed socio-economic scenarios in quantitative map-based terms. (i) We built scenarios using local…”
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Social and Ecological Change over a Decade in a Village Hunting System, Central Gabon by COAD, L., SCHLEICHER, J., MILNER-GULLAND, E. J., MARTHEWS, T. R., STARKEY, M., MANICA, A., BALMFORD, A., MBOMBE, W., DIOP BINENI, T. R., ABERNETHY, K. A.

“…Despite widespread recognition of the major threat to tropical forest biological diversity and local food security posed by unsustainable bushmeat hunting,…”
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Distribution and Use of Income from Bushmeat in a Rural Village, Central Gabon by COAD, L, ABERNETHY, K, BALMFORD, A, MANICA, A, AIREY, L, MILNER‐GULLAND, E.J

“…Bushmeat hunting is an activity integral to rural forest communities that provides a high proportion of household incomes and protein requirements. An improved…”
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Measuring and modelling above-ground carbon and tree allometry along a tropical elevation gradient by Marshall, A.R., Willcock, S., Platts, P.J., Lovett, J.C., Balmford, A., Burgess, N.D., Latham, J.E., Munishi, P.K.T., Salter, R., Shirima, D.D., Lewis, S.L.

“…► A test of methods for assessing above-ground carbon (AGC) including monitoring recommendations. ► Trees are tallest per diameter at mid-elevation, on south…”
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When does conservation genetics matter? by Amos, William, Balmford, Andrew

“…Is this short review we explore the genetic threats facing declining populations, focusing in particular on empirical studies and the emerging questions they…”
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Governance and the loss of biodiversity by Smith, R. J, Muir, R. D. J, Walpole, M. J, Balmford, A, Leader-Williams, N

“…Most of the world's biodiversity occurs within developing countries that require donor support to build their conservation capacity. Unfortunately, some of…”
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The importance of local forest benefits: Economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania by Schaafsma, M., Morse-Jones, S., Posen, P., Swetnam, R.D., Balmford, A., Bateman, I.J., Burgess, N.D., Chamshama, S.A.O., Fisher, B., Freeman, T., Geofrey, V., Green, R.E., Hepelwa, A.S., Hernández-Sirvent, A., Hess, S., Kajembe, G.C., Kayharara, G., Kilonzo, M., Kulindwa, K., Lund, J.F., Madoffe, S.S., Mbwambo, L., Meilby, H., Ngaga, Y.M., Theilade, I., Treue, T., van Beukering, P., Vyamana, V.G., Turner, R.K.

“…•We value four Non-Timber Forest Products from the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania.•We transfer spatially explicit models of NTFP collection across a wide…”
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Conservation Conflicts across Africa by Balmford, Andrew, Moore, Joslin L., Brooks, Thomas, Burgess, Neil, Hansen, Louis A., Williams, Paul, Rahbek, Carsten

“…There is increasing evidence that areas of outstanding conservation importance may coincide with dense human settlement or impact. We tested the generality of…”
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Can We Afford to Conserve Biodiversity? by JAMES, ALEXANDER, GASTON, KEVIN J, BALMFORD, ANDREW

“…James, Gaston and Balmford discss the feasibility implementing a global conservation program. They argue that government expenditures on subsidies that…”
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Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products: A case study on charcoal production in Tanzania by Schaafsma, M., Morse-Jones, S., Posen, P., Swetnam, R.D., Balmford, A., Bateman, I.J., Burgess, N.D., Chamshama, S.A.O., Fisher, B., Green, R.E., Hepelwa, A.S., Hernández-Sirvent, A., Kajembe, G.C., Kulindwa, K., Lund, J.F., Mbwambo, L., Meilby, H., Ngaga, Y.M., Theilade, I., Treue, T., Vyamana, V.G., Turner, R.K.

“…Mapping the distribution of the quantity and value of forest benefits to local communities is useful for forest management, when socio-economic and…”
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Adaptive female choice for middle-aged mates in a lekking sandfly by Jones, T.M, Balmford, A, Quinnell, R.J

“…, showing that choosy females discriminate against older males and gain a fitness benefit from their choice. When permitted free choice from an aggregation…”
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Balancing the Earth's accounts by James, Alexander N, Gaston, Kevin J, Balmford, Andrew

“…Governments could safeguard the world's biodiversity with a small fraction of the money they spend on environmentally harmful subsidies. The comparatively low…”
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Toward a Blueprint for Conservation in Africa by Brooks, Thomas, Balmford, Andrew, Burgess, Neil, Fjeldså, Jon, Hansen, Louis A., Moore, Joslin, Rahbek, Carsten, Williams, Paul

“…A new database on the distribution of vertebrate species in a tropical continent allows new insights into priorities for conservation across Africa. Brooks, et…”
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Atlantic forest extinctions by Brooks, Thomas, Balmford, Andrew

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On hotspots and the use of indicators for reserve selection by Balmford, Andrew

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