Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, L Fahrig, M Tabarelli… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

[HTML][HTML] Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

MJ Samways, PS Barton, K Birkhofer, F Chichorro… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fate of humans and insects intertwine, especially through the medium of plants. Global
environmental change, including land transformation and contamination, is causing …

Complex agricultural landscapes host more biodiversity than simple ones: A global meta-analysis

N Estrada-Carmona, AC Sánchez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity conservation requires profound
structural changes worldwide. Often, discussions are centered on management at the field …

Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis

W Niether, J Jacobi, WJ Blaser, C Andres… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Scientific knowledge, societal debates, and industry commitments around sustainable cocoa
are increasing. Cocoa agroforestry systems are supposed to improve the sustainability of …

[HTML][HTML] Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry

A Wurz, T Tscharntke, DA Martin, K Osen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Resolving ecological-economic trade-offs between biodiversity and yields is a key challenge
when addressing the biodiversity crisis in tropical agricultural landscapes. Here, we focused …

Reconciling food production and biodiversity conservation: land sharing and land sparing compared

B Phalan, M Onial, A Balmford, RE Green - science, 2011 - science.org
The question of how to meet rising food demand at the least cost to biodiversity requires the
evaluation of two contrasting alternatives: land sharing, which integrates both objectives on …

Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

AG Power - … transactions of the royal society B: biological …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Agricultural ecosystems provide humans with food, forage, bioenergy and pharmaceuticals
and are essential to human wellbeing. These systems rely on ecosystem services provided …

A review of agroforestry ecosystem services and its enlightenment on the ecosystem improvement of rocky desertification control

J Xiao, K Xiong - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Agroforestry (AF) has become an important strategy in reconciling the contradictory
requirements of environmental protection and economic development in ecologically fragile …

On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

FPL Melo, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, L Fahrig… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
With the decreasing affordability of protecting large blocks of pristine tropical forests,
ecologists have staked their hopes on the management of human-modified landscapes …

The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model

I Perfecto, J Vandermeer - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between
agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely …