Landscape-scale modelling of agroforestry ecosystems services in Swiss orchards: a methodological approach

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dc.contributor.authorKay, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorCrous-Duran, Josep
dc.contributor.authorGarcía de Jalón, Silvestre
dc.contributor.authorGraves, Anil
dc.contributor.authorPalma, João H. N.
dc.contributor.authorRoces-Díaz, José V.
dc.contributor.authorSzerencsits, Erich
dc.contributor.authorWeibel, Robert
dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Felix
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-16T14:34:28Z
dc.date.available2018-10-16T14:34:28Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-02
dc.description.abstractContext Agroforestry systems in temperate Europe are known to provide both, provisioning and regulating ecosystem services (ES). Yet, it is poorly understood how these systems affect ES provision at a landscape scale in contrast to agricultural practises. Objectives This study aimed at developing a novel, spatially explicit model to assess and quantify bundles of provisioning and regulating ES provided by landscapes with and without agroforestry systems and to test the hypothesis that agroforestry landscapes provide higher amounts of regulating ES than landscapes dominated by monocropping. Methods Focussing on ES that are relevant for agroforestry and agricultural practices, we selected six provisioning and regulating ES—“biomass production”, “groundwater recharge”, “nutrient retention”, “soil preservation”, “carbon storage”, “habitat and gene pool protection”. Algorithms for quantifying these services were identified, tested, adapted, and applied in a traditional cherry orchard landscape in Switzerland, as a case study. Eight landscape test sites of 1 km × 1 km, four dominated by agroforestry and four dominated by agriculture, were mapped and used as baseline for the model. Results We found that the provisioning ES, namely the annual biomass yield, was higher in landscape test sites with agriculture, while the regulating ES were better represented in landscape test sites with agroforestry. The differences were found to be statistically significant for the indicators annual biomass yield, groundwater recharge rate, nitrate leaching, annual carbon sequestration, flowering resources, and share of semi-natural habitats. Conclusions This approach provides an example for spatially explicit quantification of provisioning and regulating ES and is suitable for comparing different land use scenarii at landscape scale.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationSonja Kay, Josep Crous-Duran, Silvestre García de Jalón, et al., Landscape-scale modelling of agroforestry ecosystems services in Swiss orchards: a methodological approach. Landscape Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 9, 2018, pp. 1633–1644en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0921-2973
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0691-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13538
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectBiodiversityen_UK
dc.subjectCherry orcharden_UK
dc.subjectClimate change mitigationen_UK
dc.subjectErosionen_UK
dc.subjectLandscape water balanceen_UK
dc.subjectLonsdorf modelen_UK
dc.subjectNitrate leachingen_UK
dc.titleLandscape-scale modelling of agroforestry ecosystems services in Swiss orchards: a methodological approachen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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