High-Resolution Assessment of Land Use Impacts on Biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment Using Species Habitat Suitability Models

摘要: Agricultural land use is a main driver of global biodiversity loss. The assessment impacts in decision-support tools such as life cycle (LCA) requires spatially explicit models, but existing approaches are either not differentiated or modeled at very coarse scales (e.g., biomes ecoregions). In this paper, we develop high-resolution (900 m) method for on based habitat suitability models (HSM) mammal species. This considers potential effects individual species, and weighted by the species’ conservation status rarity. We illustrate using case study crop production East Africa, underlying HSMs developed Global Mammals Assessment available globally. calculate three major export crops compare results to two previously methods (focusing local regional impacts, respectively) assess relevance methodo...