Based on these findings, our main conclusion is that, in order to provide planning and policy-making with an adequate knowledge base, it is necessary to move beyond land-use classes, as defined by European data sets like Urban Atlas, and toward tools capable of capturing more detailed aspects of land use and its relations to the supply of urban ESs.
However, these impacts could conceivably lead to changes in geomorphological processes beyond the area of land use change, thereby evidencing a geomorphic connectivity in the landscape.
Since different successional stages influence the provision of ecosystem services, the changes observed in our study are likely to have consequences for humans that extend beyond immediate changes in land use patterns.
The expansion of the use of soil knowledge to address issues beyond agronomic production, such as land use planning, environmental concerns, food security, energy security, water security, and human health, to name a few, requires new ways to communicate what we know about the soils we map as well as bringing forth research questions that were not widely considered in earlier soils studies.
In particular, it requires the design of land use systems beyond the farm level, integrating the farming activities within the structure and composition of the landscape as a whole.
If land use intensity increases beyond a critical point, land will further degrade from a farmer's as well as from environmental perspective.
Intensive plantation silviculture is a shifting pattern of land use that extends well beyond the area of activity captured in a snapshot.
This paper examines both paradigms, asking: does the spatial arrangement of land use types add specific qualities beyond statistical measures of their existence and quantity?
Our results suggest that the role of land use in shaping species richness patterns goes beyond the local scale and persists at larger spatial scales.
Beyond health problems, add the cost of coal's effect on land use, energy consumption, and food prices, plus the cost of toxic waste spills and cleanup... $500 billion.
Urbanization is the most drastic form of land use change affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services far beyond the limits of cities.
