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Fig. 5

From: Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

Fig. 5

Quantile overlay of expansion potential, intensification potential and endemism richness. While a shows the 10th percentile, b shows the sensitivity of the overlay based on selected thresholds between 5 and 30% (see Supplementary Fig. 18 for maps of the different thresholds). The overlay analysis was performed at 55 km resolution of an equal-area grid. The red areas highlight the hottest hotspots, where high biodiversity may be particularly threatened by future cropland expansion. The purple areas highlight the hottest hotspots, where high biodiversity may be particularly affected by future cropland intensification. The black areas pinpoint places where high biodiversity is particularly threatened by both agricultural scenarios simultaneously. The orange, green and blue colours indicate regions with the top 10% of expansion potential, intensification potential and biodiversity that do not overlap with any other top 10% of data. The brown areas indicate regions where the top percentile of expansion and intensification potential overlap without overlapping the top percentile areas of biodiversity. In b, the same colours are used, abbreviating expansion (E), intensification (I) and biodiversity (B)

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