Journal of Insect Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 29(2)
Published: March 29, 2025
Language: Английский
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 119(38)
Published: Sept. 12, 2022
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity conservation requires profound structural changes worldwide. Often, discussions are centered on management at the field level. However, a wide and growing body of evidence calls for zooming out targeting policies, research, interventions landscape level halt reverse decline in biodiversity, increase biodiversity-mediated ecosystem services landscapes, improve resilience adaptability these ecosystems. We conducted most comprehensive assessment date complexity effects nondomesticated terrestrial through meta-analysis 1,134 effect sizes from 157 peer-reviewed articles. Increasing composition, configuration, or heterogeneity significatively positively affects biodiversity. More complex host more (richness, abundance, evenness) with potential benefits sustainable production conservation, likely underestimated. The few articles that assessed combined contribution linear (e.g., hedgerows) areal woodlots) elements resulted near-doubling (i.e., level) compared dominant number studies measuring separately. Similarly, positive stronger monitoring least 2 y 1-y efforts. Besides, exist when occurs nonoverlapping highlighting need long-term robustly designed Living harmony nature will require shifting paradigms toward valuing promoting multifunctional agriculture farm levels research agenda untangles landscapes’ contributions people under current future conditions.
Language: Английский
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Ecology Letters, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(3)
Published: March 1, 2024
Abstract Agricultural intensification not only increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase across habitats, while increasing crop may support within agroecosystems. These spatial effects can be partitioned into compositional (land‐cover type diversity) and configurational arrangement), measured either for the mosaic or both crops semi‐natural habitats. However, studies have reported mixed responses of in these components taxa contexts. Our meta‐analysis covering 6397 fields 122 conducted Asia, Europe, North South America reveals consistently positive heterogeneity, as well plant, invertebrate, vertebrate, pollinator predator biodiversity. Vertebrates plants benefit more from invertebrates derive similar benefits heterogeneity. Pollinators predators favour are consistent vertebrates tropical/subtropical temperate agroecosystems, annual perennial cropping systems, at small large scales. results suggest that promoting increased by diversifying current UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, is key restoring agricultural landscapes.
Language: Английский
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Agricultural Systems, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 204, P. 103538 - 103538
Published: Oct. 29, 2022
We systematically review proposed biodiversity indicators for result-based agri-environmental schemes.• Additionally, we synthesize currently used in Most studies and schemes focus on grasslands plant species diversity using vascular plants as indicators.• Policymakers can draw upon various options to design their Technological advances could improve the monitoring of indicators.
Language: Английский
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Journal of Plant Ecology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 16(6)
Published: May 24, 2023
Abstract One central challenge for humanity is to mitigate and adapt an ongoing climate biodiversity crisis while providing resources a growing human population. Ecological intensification (EI) aims maximize crop productivity minimizing impacts on the environment, especially by using improve ecosystem functions services. Many EI measures are based trophic interactions between organisms (e.g. pollination, biocontrol). Here, we investigate how research multitrophic effects of functioning could advance application in agriculture forestry. We review previous studies use qualitative analyses literature test important variables such as land-use parameters or habitat complexity affect diversity, biodiversity–ecosystem relationships. found that positive prevalent production systems, largely across function dimensions, levels, study methodologies different functions, however, with certain context dependencies. also strong land management functions. detected knowledge gaps terms data from underrepresented geographical areas, organism groups functional diversity measurements. Additionally, identified several aspects require more attention future, trade-offs multiple temporal dynamics, change, spatial scale their implementation. This information will be vital ensure agricultural forest landscapes produce sustainably within environmental limits planet.
Language: Английский
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Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 79, P. 103775 - 103775
Published: March 12, 2024
Language: Английский
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Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 44(2)
Published: Feb. 26, 2024
Abstract Plant diversification contributes to the ecological intensification of agroecosystems through pest biocontrol services provision. However, existing evidence for effectiveness plant in enhancing is highly uncertain across features diversity and biodiversity characteristics. We undertook a comparative meta-analysis focusing on three essential crops (wheat, maize, soybean) investigate how schemes in-field (intercropping) Agri-environmental scheme (AES) around field (flower strip, hedgerow margin) affect arthropod abundance. A random effects analysis was used determine role 10 key factors underlying including level habitat, main companion species, intercropping arrangement, growth stage crops, type AES planting scheme, width, distance from plantings geographical latitude. The overall results revealed that reduced herbivore boosted predators parasitoids abundance significantly, while successfully increased but not herbivores. Maize with legume non-legume plants row allowed effective management. wheat fields immediately adjacent (AES), this effect declined beyond 5 m flower strips. Our suggest response compromise between spatial management scale, characteristics features. These offer promising pathways optimizing include functional farm temporal scales designing multi-functional landscapes.
Language: Английский
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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 916, P. 170163 - 170163
Published: Jan. 17, 2024
Agricultural Biodiversity dynamics has been evaluated by social metabolism or landscape structure-function analysis. In this study, using ELIA modeling, we used both methods in combination to understand how the interplay between and can affect biodiversity pattern distribution. We energy reinvestment (E) as an indicator of heterogeneity (Le) structure-function. propose a research hypothesis analyze patterns considering four different clusters identified based on high low E Le. As cluster 1, defined Le associated natural ecosystems it. These are expected contain species abundance but richness. 2, were semi-natural it, where nature friendly farm system developed. these ecosystems, richness expected. Cluster 3 with was intensive farmland, which is due simplification landscape. Here, confirm that ecosystem services related have drastically reduced. Lastly, 4 refers mosaics farmland pasture. cluster, index spatial diversity, lack reinvestment. evaluate proposed for analysis Qazvin province, emphasizing availability shaping ecological communities. This study highlights importance understanding at scale emphasizes need interdisciplinary address conservation sustainability challenges. Our approach would be very useful there data.
Language: Английский
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Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 305, P. 111094 - 111094
Published: March 19, 2025
Language: Английский
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Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 367, P. 108948 - 108948
Published: March 12, 2024
Ecological focus areas (EFAs) are a key element of European agri-environmental measures, which aim at mitigating the negative impact intensive agricultural practices on biodiversity. They mostly implemented local scale, such as action-based EFAs (prescribed minimum biodiversity-friendly management) and result-based biodiversity outcome). Implementation landscape scale part collaborative landscape-targeted approach is less frequent. There, farmers given region jointly determine where measures in order to create landscape. The effectiveness three different, but often intertwined approaches promote farmland biodiversity, has hardly ever been studied. To this end, we analyzed data from 121 1-km2 squares distributed across Swiss landscapes. At (10-m2 units), found that plant species richness was higher all EFA categories compared management units outside EFAs, tended be highest EFAs. (1-km2 positively related large total area while butterfly bird were with high share We conclude result-based, especially come along transaction costs, they contribute substantially different spatial scales.
Language: Английский
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Landscape Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 39(8)
Published: July 17, 2024
Abstract Context Birds, as indicators of biodiversity, are experiencing habitat reduction and loss due to landscape changes. Evidence is mounting that the response bird richness patterns remains controversial on a global scale. In this study, we conducted quantitative synthesis gain comprehensive understanding relationship. Our findings contribute development conservation strategies align with objectives SDG15. Objective Through review, study investigated effects analyzed sources heterogeneity in results. Methods A random-effects model was utilized merge impacts metrics richness, meta-regression analysis performed investigate origins heterogeneity. Results The review encompassed 101 articles from 51 countries worldwide. Field sampling emerged primary method for acquiring data, multiple linear regression generalized models main analytical approaches. meta-analysis results highlighted area crucial factor influencing richness. Regarding composition, proportions forests, shrublands, water bodies positively impacted while agricultural land urban had negative effects. relationship between complexity influenced by factors, including net productivity (NPP) precipitation. Landscape identified contributing increased species Conclusion Compared complexity, composition more suitable reference tools conservation. exhibit variation. Moreover, our underscore role preserving forested areas supporting diversity, emphasizing necessity account regional variations when establishing forest cover thresholds.
Language: Английский
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