Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services

D Beillouin, T Ben‐Ari, E Malézieux… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the
delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop …

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

E Meijaard, TM Brooks, KM Carlson, EM Slade… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

Key factors influencing differences in stream water quality across space

A Lintern, JA Webb, D Ryu, S Liu… - Wiley …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, many rivers are experiencing declining water quality, for example, with altered
levels of sediments, salts, and nutrients. Effective water quality management requires a …

Wetland buffer zones for nitrogen and phosphorus retention: Impacts of soil type, hydrology and vegetation

CR Walton, D Zak, J Audet, RJ Petersen… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wetland buffer zones (WBZs) are riparian areas that form a transition between terrestrial and
aquatic environments and are well-known to remove agricultural water pollutants such as …

Evidence for the impacts of agroforestry on ecosystem services and human well-being in high-income countries: a systematic map

SE Castle, DC Miller, N Merten, PJ Ordonez… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Background Agroforestry bridges the gap that often separates agriculture and forestry by
building integrated systems to address both environmental and socio-economic objectives …

Streamside forest buffer width needed to protect stream water quality, habitat, and organisms: a literature review

BW Sweeney, JD Newbold - JAWRA Journal of the American …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This literature review addresses how wide a streamside forest buffer needs to be to protect
water quality, habitat, and biota for small streams (≤~ 100 km2 or~ 5th order watershed) …

The Role of Riparian Vegetation in Protecting and Improving Chemical Water Quality in Streams1

MG Dosskey, P Vidon, NP Gurwick… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Dosskey, Michael G., Philippe Vidon, Noel P. Gurwick, Craig J. Allan, Tim P. Duval, and
Richard Lowrance, 2010. The Role of Riparian Vegetation in Protecting and Improving …

[HTML][HTML] Towards ecologically functional riparian zones: A meta-analysis to develop guidelines for protecting ecosystem functions and biodiversity in agricultural …

L Lind, EM Hasselquist, H Laudon - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
Riparian zones contribute with biodiversity and ecosystem functions of fundamental
importance for regulating flow and nutrient transport in waterways. However, agricultural …

Biogeochemical hotspots: Role of small water bodies in landscape nutrient processing

FY Cheng, NB Basu - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increased loading of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from agricultural and urban
intensification has led to severe degradation of inland and coastal waters. Lakes, reservoirs …