Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now.

A century of increasingly restrictive zoning has priced out lower-cost housing, and new limits on how homes are used risk ...

Section of the world map focussing on Africa. Many coloured dots mark the location and type of different forms of land use after deforestation. Africa's forested areas – an estimated 14 % of the ...

The ability to acquire cheap, fertile land drove much of American history. Ordinary people — many of them recent immigrants — could obtain land on which to sustain families with very little more than ...