Assessing Ecological Indicators for Remnant Vegetation Strips as Functional Biological Corridors in Chilean Vineyards

Díaz-Forestier, Javiera; Abades, Sebastián; Pohl, Nélida; Barbosa, Olga; Godoy, Karina; Svensson, Gabriella L.; Undurraga, María I.; Bravo, Camila; García, Camila B.; Root‐Bernstein, Meredith; Armestó, Juan J.; Celis‐Diez, Juan L.

doi:10.3390/d13090447

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“…unused land) are likely to be the most beneficial measures regarding ecological aspects. Vegetation strips in vineyards of Central Chile, which may be seen as a type of buffer zone, were suggested to represent an important opportunity for biodiversity conservation and landscape connectivity (Díaz-Forestier et al 2021 ). Regarding the contribution of these interventions to water and soil aspects, grass and forest buffer zones in Australian plantations were reported to provide ecological benefits by limiting run-off and soil erosion (McKergow et al 2004 ).…”

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Prioritizing farm management interventions to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes—a case study for banana plantations

Fernández

Luedeling

et al. 2022

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Intervening into agricultural systems necessarily includes risks, uncertainties, and ultimately unknown outcomes. Decision analysis embraces uncertainty through an interdisciplinary approach that involves relevant stakeholders in evaluating complex decisions. We applied decision analysis approaches to prioritize 21 farm management interventions, which could be considered in certification schemes for banana production. We estimated their contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as ecological outcomes. We used a general model that estimated the impacts of each intervention on adaptation (benefits minus costs), mitigation (global warming potential), ecological parameters (e.g., biodiversity and water and soil quality), and farming aspects (e.g., yield, implementation costs and production risks). We used expert and documented knowledge and presented uncertainties in the form of 90% confidence intervals to feed the model and forecast the changes in system outcomes caused by each intervention compared to a baseline scenario without the measure. By iterating the model function 10,000 times, we obtained probability distributions for each of the outcomes and farm management interventions. Our results suggest that interventions associated with nutrient management (e.g., composting and nutrient management plan) positively affect climate change adaptation, mitigation, and ecological aspects. Measures with no direct yield benefits (e.g., plastic reduction) correlate negatively with adaptation but have positive impacts on ecology. Creating buffer zones and converting low-productivity farmland (incl. unused land) also have positive ecological and adaptation outcomes. Decision analysis can help in prioritizing farm management interventions, which may vary considerably in their relationship with the expected outcomes. Additional work may be required to elaborate a comprehensive assessment of the underlying aspects modulating the impacts of a given measure on the evaluated outcome. Our analysis provides insights on the most promising interventions for banana plantations and may help practitioners and researchers in focusing further studies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Prioritizing farm management interventions to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes—a case study for banana plantations

Fernández

Luedeling

et al. 2022

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…For example, a circular patch minimises the edge effects with the adjacent component compared with an irregular patch shape. Often parameterised as perimeter-area ratios, this is identified as a key factor in connecting habitats of pests and natural enemies across landscapes (Bianchi et al, 2006; Díaz-Forestier et al, 2021; Jones et al, 2021).…”

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Concepts of trait diversity – the key to effective IPM for resilience in arable systems?

Newton

Karley

2023

Outlook Agric

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Modern agriculture is perceived to be unsustainable having pursued a high productivity, reductionist approach for many decades. The solution proposed for restoring ‘sustainability’ is often encapsulated in the term ‘diversity’ but this is frequently as ill-defined and open to wide interpretation as the word sustainable. Key to determining whether diversity is ‘the answer’ is defining what diversity means in practice in the field. We attempt to describe the concepts and components of diversity and, crucially, how they might combine and interact in agricultural systems. The key concepts are: (1) complexity, (2) variation, and (3) spatio-temporal interaction, with the latter comprising (a) heterogeneity, (b) spatial connectivity, and (c) temporal connectivity. We suggest that this might lead to new strategies of diversity deployment and an index of resilience, a key ingredient of sustainability. These measures of diversity are explored in the context of crop resistance to pests and pathogens and the potential to maximise the benefits for integrated pest management in arable crops.

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“…According to this draft statement, New Zealand regional councils will be required to develop regional biodiversity strategies, in the form of networks, to implement this policy statement by 2025. Such networks have been integrated successfully or implemented in vineyard landscapes in Oregon, California, Chile, and South Africa [1,14,18,82,83].…”

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“…However, many more studies support its benefits. It can significantly increase all kinds of biodiversity [18], whether exotic or indigenous, benefiting ecosystem health. For example, it can increase the diversity of arthropods [19], indigenous vegetation, bees, birds, and bats [20][21][22].…”

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Evaluation of an Incentive Programme for Increasing Green Infrastructure on Vineyards

Goodall,

McWilliam,

Meurk

et al. 2023

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Wine grape ecosystems with low species richness and reliance on agrichemicals have weak resilience to environmental impacts. Increasing biodiversity through green infrastructure (GI) not only helps mitigate some of these impacts but can provide additional benefits to growers and the public. Despite this, many vineyards have limited GI. While scholars suggest incentive programmes may help to encourage GI implementation, few studies have evaluated their effectiveness. We surveyed winegrowers and their vineyards in the Waipara Valley sub-region, New Zealand, to evaluate an incentive programme aimed at increasing GI on vineyards, particularly indigenous vegetation. The results indicated the programme was effective in encouraging growers to plant indigenous plants in areas incapable or unsuitable for growing grapes, largely in support of nature conservation, aesthetics, branding, and sales. It was less successful in encouraging growers to plant them in productive areas. While substantial GI, primarily in the form of inter-row cover crops, was managed in these areas, most were exotic plants seen by growers to provide superior services (especially erosion control, weed suppression and pest regulation) at lower management complexity and cost. Growers identified six GI enablers: (1) promoting GI types that provide greater grower services than disservices and costs of implementation and management; (2) implementing GI where biophysical conditions support success; (3) providing assistance with plant selection and design; (4) providing GI implementation and/or management funding; (5) developing GI certification policies and regional association programmes; and (6) providing government GI regulations, strategies, and incentives. They also identified five barriers: (1) insufficient grower appreciation for indigenous GI services; (2) grower concerns that some GI disservices were greater than their services; (3) grower belief that costs of GI implementation and/or management were greater than those of alternative practices; (4) harsh and remote GI growing conditions; (5) lack of grower knowledge regarding how to design plantings, especially those that could provide multiple services; and (6) lack of sufficient financial resources for GI implementation and/or management. Twenty recommendations for improving GI implementation are provided.

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Assessing Ecological Indicators for Remnant Vegetation Strips as Functional Biological Corridors in Chilean Vineyards

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Prioritizing farm management interventions to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes—a case study for banana plantations

Prioritizing farm management interventions to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes—a case study for banana plantations

Concepts of trait diversity – the key to effective IPM for resilience in arable systems?

Evaluation of an Incentive Programme for Increasing Green Infrastructure on Vineyards

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