Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

Mupepele, Anne‐Christine; Bruelheide, Helge; Brühl, Carsten A.; Dauber, Jens; Fenske, Michaela; Freibauer, Annette; Gerowitt, Bärbel; Krüß, Andreas; Lakner, Sebastian; Plieninger, Tobías; Potthast, Thomas; Schlacke, Sabine; Seppelt, Ralf; Stützel, Hartmut; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Wägele, Wolfgang; Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin; Klein, Alexandra‐Maria

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.08.014

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“…For the preservation of a high biodiversity in Iberian dehesas, it is essential for society to recognise the ecosystem services provided by these agroforestry systems in the form of subsidies or other payments to landowners in return for the long-term economic sustainability of this low-intensity productive system [8,117,118].…”

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Which Factors Favour Biodiversity in Iberian Dehesas?

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Dehesas or montados are man-made systems whose conservation interest as a Mediterranean landscape or agroforestry system has been highlighted in the scientific literature due to their high levels of biodiversity. The understanding of how management practices influence the biodiversity of the dehesa requires a comprehensive approach that considers the broad spectrum of biological components (i.e., fungi, lichens, vascular plants, macroinvertebrates, and vertebrates) that make the dehesa an ecosystem. We have reviewed around seventy publications compiled through Scopus and other specialized bibliographic sources not included in Scopus that study the impact of land use and land cover on the biodiversity of Iberian dehesas. The most significant results have been organized and summarized into a group of factors related to habitat structure and management practices. The conclusion to be drawn from the scientific studies is that not all biological components respond in the same way to land-cover and human practices, and the maintenance of a high overall diversity in dehesas depends on a complex understorey vegetation and habitat heterogeneity.

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“…Combined, these changes led to an intensification of land use, increases in field size, and a loss of heterogeneity and of unused or extensively used habitats such as hedgerows and wetlands within agricultural landscapes. This ultimately resulted in the dominance of nutrient‐rich habitats, which had pronounced negative effects on many species (Kienast, 1993; Plieninger et al, 2015; Mupepele et al, 2021).…”

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AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years

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Buldrini

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“…The problems of conservation, mobilization and rational use of biological diversity do not cease to be relevant [1][2][3]. Climate change, increased stress load on plants, reduction of areas and transformation of agro-and biolandscapes lead to the threat of extinction of not only species, but also cultivars.…”

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Conserving biodiversity of plant genetic collections in FRC SSC of RAS

Ryndin

Kulyan

Слепченко

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The paper considers the problem of conserving biological diversity in the Federal Research Centre the Subtropical Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The research was carried out on the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory in the humid subtropical zone. The climatic conditions in the given zone, as well as a number of other factors, contributed to the formation and growth of unique diverse species and of plant cultivars, many of which are included in the collections of FRC SSC of RAS and have been objects of research. The paper presents an analysis of genetic resources, which includes 2 700 subtropical cultivars, southern fruit, pome, nut-bearing, flower crops and tea, as well as species of natural flora, supported in a live form. Collections consisting of Russian and foreign cultivars, aboriginal, intergenerational and interspecific forms, clones, rare, endangered and endemic species of natural flora are given in the paper. 90 sources of valuable traits have been identified, of which 51 are floral, 39 are fruit. In addition to the purposes of conserving valuable genetic material, collection samples are used for fundamental research in the field of biology, genetics, breeding, physiology and biochemistry (1 594 cultivars). 1 748 cultivars are recommended for practical use, as well as for obtaining fruit and flower products and planting material.

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Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

Cited by 42 publications

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Which Factors Favour Biodiversity in Iberian Dehesas?

Which Factors Favour Biodiversity in Iberian Dehesas?

AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years

Conserving biodiversity of plant genetic collections in FRC SSC of RAS

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