Cover

Contents

List of contributors

1 Land use intensification: a challenge for humanity

Part A General themes and principles

2 Combining biodiversity conservation with agricultural intensification

3 Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: perspectives from a research–policy interface

4 Intensive farming and its role in wildlife conservation: routes to squaring the circle?

Part B Specific case studies

5 Land use changes imperil South-East Asian biodiversity

6 How agricultural intensification threatens temperate grassy woodlands

7 Mitigating land use intensification in the endemic-rich hotspots of southern Africa and western Indian Ocean

8 Land use intensification, small landholders, and biodiversity conservation: perspectives from the Eastern Himalayas

9 Riches to rags: the ecological consequences of land use intensification in New Zealand

10 Land use intensification and the status of focal species in managed forest landscapes of New Brunswick, Canada

11 Land use intensification impacts on biodiversity in the mallee/wheat landscape of central NSW

12 Ecological responses of Australian grassy woodland and shrubland ecosystems to agricultural intensification: lessons from long-term, multi-species, multi-biome studies

13 Land use intensification in natural forest settings

14 Intensification of coffee production and its biodiversity consequences

Part C General discussion

15 Perspectives on land use intensification and biodiversity conservation

Index