Journal
BIOSCIENCE
Volume 66, Issue 10, Pages 890-896Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw004
Keywords
agricultural production; biodiversity conservation; land-use intensity; landscape configuration; landscape composition
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- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under National Science Foundation [DBI-1052875]
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- Synthesis Centre (sDiv) of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research [DFG FZT 118]
- Helmholtz Association (Research School ESCALATE) [VH-KO-613]
- UK Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J011193/1]
- Germany Federal Ministry of Education and Research (GLUES) [01LL0901A]
- EU 7th Framework Program (OPERAs) [308393]
- National Science Foundation [1119891]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [1052875] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1119891] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1262545, 1262402, 1639145] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J011193/1, NE/J011193/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/J011193/1, NE/J011193/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Biodiversity conservation and agricultural production are often seen as mutually exclusive objectives. Strategies for reconciling them are intensely debated. We argue that harmonization between biodiversity conservation and crop production can be improved by increasing our understanding of the underlying relationships between them. We provide a general conceptual framework that links biodiversity and agricultural production through the separate relationships between land use and biodiversity and between land use and production. Hypothesized relationships are derived by synthesizing existing empirical and theoretical ecological knowledge. The framework suggests nonlinear relationships caused by the multifaceted impacts of land use (composition, configuration, and intensity). We propose solutions for overcoming the apparently dichotomous aims of maximizing either biodiversity conservation or agricultural production and suggest new hypotheses that emerge from our proposed framework.
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