Quantifying Trade-Offs Among Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, and Agricultural Returns in an Agriculturally Dominated Landscape Under Future Land‑Management Scenarios

Authors: Emma C Underwood, Rachel A Hutchinson, Joshua H Viers, T Rodd Kelsey, Trisha Distler, Jaymee Marty Abstract: Change in land use in agriculturally dominated areas is often assumed to provide positive benefits for land-owners and financial agricultural returns at the expense Read more…

Identifying economic hurdles to early adoption of preventative practices: the case of trunk diseases in California winegrape vineyards

Authors: Jonathan Kaplan, Renaud Travadon, Monica Cooper, Vicken Hillis, Mark Lubell, Kendra Baumgartner Abstract: Despite the high likelihood of infection and substantial yield losses from trunk diseases, many California practitioners wait to adopt field-tested, preventative practices (delayed pruning, double pruning, and Read more…