Direct drivers are those natural and anthropogenic factors that affect biodiversity directly. Anthropogenic direct drivers can be conceptualized as the set of activities performed by humans that result in biodiversity loss (e.g. land-system change, intensification, etc.). Indirect drivers are the forces that underlie and shape the extent, severity and combination of anthropogenic direct drivers that operate in any given place.
Source: IPBES (2019), Global Assessment Report, Glossary.
