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“ Got rats ?” Global environmental costs of thirst for milk include acute biodiversity impacts linked to dairy feed production
Author(s) -
LuqueLarena Juan J.,
Mougeot François,
Arroyo Beatriz,
Lambin Xavier
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
global change biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.146
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1365-2486
pISSN - 1354-1013
DOI - 10.1111/gcb.14170
Subject(s) - thirst , damages , biodiversity , milk production , natural resource economics , production (economics) , china , animal husbandry , business , agricultural science , agriculture , environmental science , geography , biology , zoology , ecology , economics , macroeconomics , archaeology , political science , law , endocrinology
Rodents damaging alfalfa crops typically destined for export to booming Eastern markets often cause economical losses to farmers, but management interventions attempting to control rodents (i.e., use of rodenticides) are themselves damaging to biodiversity. These damages resonate beyond dairy feed producing regions through animal migration and are an overlooked part of the transferred environmental burden caused by a growing thirst for milk in China and elsewhere.