Trade-offs in the provisioning and stability of ecosystem services in agroecosystems.

ABSTRACT: Changes in land use generate trade-offs in the delivery of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. However, we know little about how the stability of ecosystem services responds to landscape composition, and what ecological mechanisms underlie these trade-offs. Here, we develop a model to investigate the dynamics of three ecosystem services in intensively managed agroecosystems, i.e., pollination-independent crop yield, crop pollination, and biodiversity. Our model reveals trade-offs and synergies imposed by landscape composition that affect not only the magnitude but also the stability of ecosystem service delivery. Trade-offs involving crop pollination are strongly affected by the degree to which crops depend on pollination and by their relative requirement for pollinator densitie

SUBMITTER: Montoya D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407690 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature