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Why Do Agroforestry Systems Enhance Biodiversity? Evidence From Habitat Amount Hypothesis Predictions

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      2022
    • Collection:
      Universidade de Coimbra: Estudo Geral
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Considering the present ecological crisis, land use-biodiversity relationships have become a major topic in landscape planning, ecosystem management and ecological restoration. In this scope, consistent patterns of outstanding biodiversity have been identified in agroforestry systems within diverse biogeographic regions and types of management. Empirical work has revealed that agroforestry higher structural complexity, when compared with current simplified agricultural systems, might be partially responsible for the observed patterns. The recently developed Habitat Amount Hypothesis predicts diversity for a local habitat patch, from the amount of the same habitat within the local landscape. We have expanded the previous hypothesis to the landscape level, computing the influence of the dominant land uses on the diversity of coexisting guilds. As a case study, we have considered archetypal landscapes dominated (or co-dominated) by crops or trees, which were compared using normalized diversities. The results obtained show that agroforestry systems substantially increase functional diversity and overall biodiversity within landscapes. We highlight that the normalized values should be parametrized to real conditions where the type of crop, tree and agroecological management will make a difference. Most importantly, our findings provide additional evidence that agroforestry has a critical role in enhancing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and, in this way, should be regarded as a priority measure in European Agri-environmental funding schemes.
    • ISSN:
      2296-701X
    • Relation:
      (AFCLIMA) (CTM2016-80176- C2-1-R) from the Retos Investigación Programme; POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958; UIDB/04033/2020; INTERACT, Integrative Research in Environment, Agro-Chains and Technology, Project Norte 2020 45/2015/02; http://hdl.handle.net/10316/100564
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.3389/fevo.2021.630151
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      http://hdl.handle.net/10316/100564
      https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.630151
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.3B504115