Conserving the birds of Uganda's banana-coffee arc: land sparing and land sharing compared.

ABSTRACT: Reconciling the aims of feeding an ever more demanding human population and conserving biodiversity is a difficult challenge. Here, we explore potential solutions by assessing whether land sparing (farming for high yield, potentially enabling the protection of non-farmland habitat), land sharing (lower yielding farming with more biodiversity within farmland) or a mixed strategy would result in better bird conservation outcomes for a specified level of agricultural production. We surveyed forest and farmland study areas in southern Uganda, measuring the population density of 256 bird species and agricultural yield: food energy and gross income. Parametric non-linear functions relating density to yield were fitted. Species were identified as "winners" (total population size always at least a

SUBMITTER: Hulme MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563584 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature