期刊
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
卷 169, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106535
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资金
- 2013-2014 BiodivERsA/FACCE-JPI joint call for research proposals (project ECODEAL)
- ANR
- BMBF
- FORMAS [2014-1783]
- FWF
- MINECO
- NWO
- PT-DLR
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [I 2045-B25]
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01 LC1407A]
- ERA-Net BiodivERsA (project FARMLAND)
- French National Research Agency [ANR-11-EBID-0004]
- German Ministry of Research and Education
- German Research Foundation
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-11-EBID-0004] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Increases in the size of agricultural fields, the loss of permanent green field edges and other semi-natural habitats have accompanied the intensification of agriculture, and are still ongoing. From a farm economic perspective, an increase in field size increases efficiency mainly due to cost savings. However, recent evidence suggests that increases in field size might lead to the loss of ecosystem services provided by farmland biodiversity, but this trade-off is rarely considered. Here, we aim to quantify the economic and ecological effects of these changes by developing a bio-economic simulation-based land-use modelling framework based on spatially explicit data from an agricultural region in Germany. The results show a substantial decrease in flower visitation in oilseed rape when field sizes increase and permanent green edges are lost. This also leads to a decrease in pollination from wild bees and affects yields and farm economics. However, this loss in agricultural gross margin is overcompensated by economic gains of field enlargement. We conclude that further, more comprehensive evaluations are required and suggest that maintaining fine-grained agricultural landscapes with permanent field margins in the long term may require incentives to farmers, as well as innovations that allow to farm small fields at lower costs.
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