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  • 1Ralf Seppelt (ralf.seppelt@ufz.de), Michael Beckmann, Anna F. Cord, and Katharina Gerstner are affiliated with the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology at the UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, in Leipzig, Germany; RS is also with the Institute of Geoscience and Geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in Germany. Silvia Ceauşu, Stefan Klotz, and Marten Winter are affiliated with iDiv, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, in Leipzig, Germany; SC is also with the Institute for Biology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in Germany, and SK is also with the Department Community Ecology at the UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, in Germany. Jessica Gurevitch is affiliated with the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, in New York. Stephan Kambach is with the Institute for Biology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Chase Mendenhall is affiliated with the Center for Conservation Biology and the Department of Biology at Stanford University, in California. Helen R. P. Phillips is with the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum, in London, United Kingdom. Kristin Powell is affiliated with the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in Annapolis, Maryland. Peter H. Verburg and Willem Verhagen are affiliated with the Department of Earth Sciences at VU University Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. Tim Newbold is affiliated with the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Bioscience
|March 31, 2018
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Keywords:
agricultural productionbiodiversity conservationland-use intensitylandscape compositionlandscape configuration

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