Reconciling biodiversity conservation, food production and farmers' demand in agricultural landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Efficient management of agricultural management should consider multiple services and stakeholders. Yet, it remains unclear how to guarantee ecosystem services for multiple stakeholders' demands, especially considering the observed biodiversity decline following reductions in semi-natural habitat (SNH), and global change. Here, we use an ecosystem service model of intensively-managed agricultural landscapes to derive the best landscape compositions for different stakeholders' demands, and how they vary with stochasticity and the degree of pollination dependence of crops. We analyse three groups of stakeholders assumed to value different ecosystem services most - individual farmers (crop yield per area), agricultural unions (landscape production) and conservationists (biodiversity). Additio

SUBMITTER: Montoya D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887556 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature