Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Locatelli, Bruno; Imbach, Pablo; Wunder, Sven

doi:10.1017/s0376892913000234

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“…Forest conservation and the maintenance of heterogeneous agricultural landscapes, with shade trees, windbreaks, live fences, weed strips, and protection of native plants that provide food resources and nesting sites and materials, are no-regret adaptation strategies. These strategies not only support future pollination service but also conserve biodiversity (23) and provide multiple ecosystem services today (24), such as water regulation and climate change mitigation (25,26). Managing a diverse, complex shade canopy could be a double-win that allows coffee to adjust to changes in climate while improving bee habitat.…”

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Coupling of pollination services and coffee suitability under climate change

Imbach

Fung

Lee

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Climate change will cause geographic range shifts for pollinators and major crops, with global implications for food security and rural livelihoods. However, little is known about the potential for coupled impacts of climate change on pollinators and crops. Coffee production exemplifies this issue, because large losses in areas suitable for coffee production have been projected due to climate change and because coffee production is dependent on bee pollination. We modeled the potential distributions of coffee and coffee pollinators under current and future climates in Latin America to understand whether future coffee-suitable areas will also be suitable for pollinators. Our results suggest that coffeesuitable areas will be reduced 73-88% by 2050 across warming scenarios, a decline 46-76% greater than estimated by global assessments. Mean bee richness will decline 8-18% within future coffee-suitable areas, but all are predicted to contain at least 5 bee species, and 46-59% of future coffee-suitable areas will contain 10 or more species. In our models, coffee suitability and bee richness each increase (i.e., positive coupling) in 10-22% of future coffee-suitable areas. Diminished coffee suitability and bee richness (i.e., negative coupling), however, occur in 34-51% of other areas. Finally, in 31-33% of the future coffee distribution areas, bee richness decreases and coffee suitability increases. Assessing coupled effects of climate change on crop suitability and pollination can help target appropriate management practices, including forest conservation, shade adjustment, crop rotation, or status quo, in different regions.coffee | adaptation strategies | smallholder farms | suitability modeling | pollination C limate change impact assessments suggest a significant reduction, up to 50% (1, 2), in the global area suitable for coffee farming by midcentury. Such losses will affect the livelihoods of 100 million people in the coffee industry (2). The direct effect of climate change on the climatic suitability of coffee farms may be mitigated or accentuated by further effect on pollinators (3). These coupled effects have not been examined in coffee climate studies.Pollinator activity at flowers has a positive effect on coffee yield (4), fruit set (5-7), and berry weight (4, 7). Significant fruit set increases occur on coffee farms as the number of bee species increases from 3 to 20 (5). Native bee species are often more effective coffee pollinators than nonnative honey bees (8), and maximizing their diversity can help provide continuous pollination over time (9). The number of flower visits and pollen deposition on flowers are higher for coffee plants close to the forest (5, 9-11) because food and nesting sites maintain pollinator populations year-round (9). Native bee foraging activity declines within hundreds of meters (up to 1,600 m) from forests where bees nest (9), making forest proximity an important determinant of pollination service. In tropical forest regions where coffee is grown, the abundant native bees are ...

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Coupling of pollination services and coffee suitability under climate change

Imbach

Fung

Lee

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Forest restoration scenarios in bottomland hardwood forests of the Mississippi River Basin showed clear spatial trade-offs between configurations targeting wildlife habitat and those targeted at improving water quality (Barnett et al 2016). A country-level study in Costa Rica showed that biodiversity hot spots have high co-benefits for carbon, water and scenic beauty, but areas with high carbon storage have lower co-benefits for water and scenic beauty (Locatelli et al 2014). Forest plantations for timber supply more provisioning services per unit area than natural forests, but offer fewer habitats for wildlife and lower levels of biodiversity ).…”

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Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration: Current status and future outlook

Chazdon¹,

Guariguata²

2018

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“…Spatial targeting has been increasingly recognized as an important strategy for achieving additional gains for biodiversity (Busch and Grantham 2013;Locatelli et al 2013;Venter et al 2013). Studies in Tanzania (Lin et al 2014) and Brazil (De Barros et al 2014) show evidence of REDD+ initiatives spatially targeting high-biodiversity areas instead of purely carbon-rich areas.…”

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“…There is also evidence that focusing REDD+ initiatives in highbiodiversity areas promotes more opportunities for bundling with other ecosystem services (e.g. biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, water regulation and scenic beauty) than when focusing on high-carbon areas alone (Locatelli et al 2013). …”

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confidence: 99%

Salvaguardar la biodiversidad en REDD+: Necesario pero no suficiente si este mecanismo busca desacelerar la pérdida de la biodiversidad global

Murray¹,

Jones²

2014

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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Cited by 104 publications

References 64 publications

Coupling of pollination services and coffee suitability under climate change

Coupling of pollination services and coffee suitability under climate change

Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration: Current status and future outlook

Salvaguardar la biodiversidad en REDD+: Necesario pero no suficiente si este mecanismo busca desacelerar la pérdida de la biodiversidad global

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