Planning agriculture based on landuse responses of threatened semiarid grassland species in India.

Highlights: [•] Can strategic allocation of agro-pastoral landuses save threatened grassland fauna? [•] Florican and lizard numbers modeled on crop-cover and grazing intensity. [•] Contrasting choice of moderately tall (florican) vs. short (lizard) grassland. [•] Interspersed cropland and spared pasture (rotationally) optimized conservation. [•] Subsidized food rationing to curtail production rise in conservation areas proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]