Soil management shapes ecosystem service provision and trade-offs in agricultural landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Agroecosystems are principally managed to maximize food provisioning even if they receive a large array of supporting and regulating ecosystem services (ESs). Hence, comprehensive studies investigating the effects of local management and landscape composition on the provision of and trade-offs between multiple ESs are urgently needed. We explored the effects of conservation tillage, nitrogen fertilization and landscape composition on six ESs (crop production, disease control, soil fertility, water quality regulation, weed and pest control) in winter cereals. Conservation tillage enhanced soil fertility and pest control, decreased water quality regulation and weed control, without affecting crop production and disease control. Fertilization only influenced crop production by increasing grai

SUBMITTER: Tamburini G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013797 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature