Abstract

5. Synthesis and applications. This Europe-wide study shows that organic farming enhanced the biodiversity of plants and birds in all landscapes, but only improved the potential for biological control in heterogeneous landscapes. These mixed results stress the importance of taking both local management and regional landscape complexity into consideration when developing future agri-environment schemes, and suggest that local-regional interactions may affect other ecosystem services and functions. This study also shows that it is not enough to design and monitor agri-environment schemes on the basis of biodiversity, but that ecosystem services should be considered too.

Keywords

agricultural intensification; agri-environment schemes; biological control; ecosystem services; landscape homogenization; species richness

Published in

Journal of Applied Ecology
2011, Volume: 48, number: 3, pages: 570-579
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL

SLU Authors

• Winqvist, Camilla

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bengtsson, Jan

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Eggers, Sönke

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Pärt, Tomas

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bommarco, Riccardo

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss


UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Agricultural Science
Ecology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01950.x

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/58103