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The effects of land degradation on biodiversity loss The different drivers of land degradation (urban sprawl, agriculture intensification, desertification, climate change…) can affect biodiversity in terms of habitat fragmentation or loss, change in plant and animal diversity and abundance, soil quality erosion, and depletion of water resources.They can strongly threat the life-supporting system in a way that can hardly be reversed, and we can assume that more species can become more susceptible to extinction because of the degradation of their habitats in natural and human-dominated landscapes. Since landscape diversity is greater in more heterogenous landscapes, biodiversity and landscape heterogeneity are positively interrelated. In this perspective, this session aims at figure out possible answers to the following research questions: - Which are the effects of land-use/land-cover change on biodiversity? - Is it possible to identify some types of diversity more sensitive to land-u
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