Factors maintaining species diversity in satoyama, a traditional agricultural landscape of Japan

Katoh, Kazuhiro; Sakai, Sumire; Takahashi, Toshimori

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.030

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“…Although this kind of landscape is not particular to Japan, it can be found all over Asia where sedentary communities have shaped landscapes over millennia (Indrawan et al 2014); its most obvious association is with the socioecological landscapes in the Japanese archipelago (Duraiappah et al 2012). Sedentary rice farming communities are an essential part of this system; satoyama in Japan has nourished such communities for over 3000 years and formed a rich ecological knowledge base in the process (Katoh et al 2009;Kobori and Primack, 2003). Satoyama is also a buffer landscape comprising of forests, woodlands and grasslands and it typically lies between wilder mountain forests and agrarian villages.…”

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“…Many prominent satoyama scholars have spoken for ‗restoration' of this socio-ecological landscape through ‗better management' and implied that a general lack of resource use from this landscape have contributed to its decline (Sano et al 2006;Katoh et al 2009). As socio-ecological landscapes are spread over multiple spatial and temporal scales, change and degradation occur on those different scales.…”

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Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Chakraborty

2017

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Abstract'Satoyama' denotes a mosaic of different landscape-types that has sustained agrarian societies for millennia in Japan. These landscapes have undergone degradation during the past few decades. While satoyama is a consistently referred term in landscape management in Japan, little attention is given to how such landscapes undergo change in large spatial units such as river basins. This study, based on documents and interviews, reviews how watershed level changes affect the functioning of such socioecological systems in the Kuma River Basin in Kyushu. Watershed properties of the Kuma River Basin changed during pre-modern and modern times and each phase left a lasting legacy on the landscape. The article analyzes how ecological connectivity became fragmented by identifying changes in ecosystem services, and concludes that while socio-ecological landscapes have a long history of human use; the human component cannot outgrow the fundamental biophysical processes that maintain ecosystem services and system resilience; these systems can undergo swift and irreversible degradation when ecological connectivity is fragmented. The main lesson for sustainable development is that consideration of historical changes in land use is vital for understanding the connectivity of different components in satoyama landscapes; this insight is important not only for rivers but also for the wider landscapes they connect and the associated integrity.

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Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Chakraborty

2017

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“…Traditional agricultural landscapes are experiencing pressures from development and intensification (Katoh et al 2009). Thus, the conservation of biodiversity is also one of the major concerns in these landscapes during environment change.…”

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Comparison of Ground Beetle Communities (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between Coniferous and Deciduous Forests in Agricultural Landscapes

Jung¹,

Kim²,

Lee³

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Journal of Forest and Environmental Science

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This study was conducted to examine the community structure of ground beetles between coniferous-and deciduous-dominant forest in agricultural landscapes, in Miryang-si, Yeongdong-gun, Icheon-si, and Cheolwon-gun during April to October in 2009. A total of 19 species belonging to 15 genera of 9 subfamilies were identified from 6,253 collected ground beetles. Dominant species from 4 regions were Synuchus nitidus (3,715 individuals, 59.4% of total) and Synuchus cyloderus (1,783 individuals, 28.5%) respectively. Non-metric multidimensional scaling based on Bray-Curtis similarity showed that ground beetle assemblage was not different between forest stands, but it was significantly different among regions. Overall, forest stands of secondary forests may not show a different community structure of ground beetle assemblages in our study. However, monitoring on the ground beetle fauna as well as other arthropods of secondary forests in agricultural landscapes is still important for the management and conservation of biodiversity, because forests provides important habitats for many predatory arthropods, such as ground beetles, spiders and rove beetles.

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“…Specifically, humandominated landscapes in rural areas, also known as Satoyama, are characterized by a long history of human intervention with farmland, farm ponds, streams/ditches, grassland and secondary forests around villages (Katoh et al 2009). Many organisms in Satoyama exhibit life history adaptations to moderate anthropogenic disturbances (e.g., Mukai et al 2005).…”

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Freshwater biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes: introduction

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Negishi

2014

Limnology

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Factors maintaining species diversity in satoyama, a traditional agricultural landscape of Japan

Cited by 173 publications

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Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Comparison of Ground Beetle Communities (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between Coniferous and Deciduous Forests in Agricultural Landscapes

Freshwater biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes: introduction

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