scholarly journals Plant Diversity in Agroecosystems and Agricultural Landscapes

10.5772/47729 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Jaskulski ◽  
Iwona Jaskulsk
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes

scholarly journals The role of biogeochemical barriers in protecting aquatic ecosystems against pollution in agricultural environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edyta Łaskawiec
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Agricultural Environment ◽  
Accumulation Capacity

This review discusses the importance of ecotones with high plant diversity which are highly effective in retaining pollutants and waste. Biogeochemical barriers play a vital role in eliminating biogenic pollutants, pesticides and heavy metals. Belts of rush plants and meadow vegetation considerably expand the accumulation capacity of water bodies and watercourses. The mechanisms responsible for the protective role of biogeochemical barriers involve various processes such as sorption, sedimentation, denitrification and assimilation, which require the coexistence of plants and microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems. Buffer barriers were presented as one of the ecohydrology tools in agricultural landscapes.

Use of topographic variability for assessing plant diversity in agricultural landscapes

2011 ◽  
Vol 142 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 144-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Hofer ◽  
Robert G.H. Bunce ◽  
Peter J. Edwards ◽  
Erich Szerencsits ◽  
Helene H. Wagner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Topographic Variability

Function of small habitat elements for enhancing plant diversity in different agricultural landscapes

2014 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 206-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lindborg ◽  
J. Plue ◽  
K. Andersson ◽  
S.A.O. Cousins
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes

scholarly journals Enhancing plant diversity in agricultural landscapes promotes both rare bees and dominant crop-pollinating bees through complementary increase in key floral resources

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1856-1864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Sutter ◽  
Philippe Jeanneret ◽  
Agustín M. Bartual ◽  
Gionata Bocci ◽  
Matthias Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Floral Resources

Plant diversity, forest dependency, and alien plant invasions in tropical agricultural landscapes

2017 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Rembold ◽  
Hardianto Mangopo ◽  
Sri Sudarmiyati Tjitrosoedirdjo ◽  
Holger Kreft
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Alien Plant ◽  
Forest Dependency

Factors influencing plant diversity of non-agricultural habitats in agricultural landscapes

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
卢训令 LU Xunling ◽  
梁国付 LIANG Guofu ◽  
汤茜 TANG Qian ◽  
丁圣彦 DING Shengyan
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Factors Influencing

Incomplete recovery of plant diversity in restored prairie wetlands on agricultural landscapes

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saloni Salaria ◽  
Renee Howard ◽  
Shari Clare ◽  
Irena F. Creed
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Prairie Wetlands ◽  
Restored Prairie

scholarly journals Implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of a payment scheme for environmental services from agricultural land

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
LENA ULBER ◽  
SEBASTIAN KLIMEK ◽  
HORST-HENNING STEINMANN ◽  
JOHANNES ISSELSTEIN ◽  
MARKUS GROTH
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Conservation Auction ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Bid Prices

SUMMARYThe current rapid decline in biodiversity in human-dominated agricultural landscapes, both in Europe and worldwide, impacts on the provision of environmental services essential to human well-being. There is, therefore, a pressing need to develop and implement incentive-based conservation policies to counteract the ongoing loss of biodiversity. This paper presents results of a regionally-scaled conservation procurement auction, a type of incentive-based payments for environmental services (PES), targeted at the conservation of arable plant diversity. By matching arable fields that were participating in the PES scheme to control fields that were not enrolled in the PES scheme, two critical key characteristics were addressed, namely additionality and bid prices. Additionality was addressed by evaluating whether fields for which PES were issued had significantly higher arable plant diversity than the matched control fields. The cost-effectiveness of a conservation auction increases if payments compensate just farmers’ opportunity costs (in terms of forgone production); bid prices of participating farmers were thus also evaluated to determine whether they were related to their individual opportunity costs. The PES scheme proved to be highly effective in ensuring environmental services delivery through enhanced arable plant diversity on participating fields. In contrast, the potential of the proposed conservation auction design to raise cost-effectiveness has to be questioned, because bid prices submitted in this scheme substantially exceeded individual farmers’ opportunity costs. Therefore, bid prices were most likely influenced by socioeconomic factors other than opportunity costs. This case study illustrates potentials and pitfalls associated with the implementation of a PES scheme and, by evaluating the effectiveness of the scheme, contributes to an improved understanding of incentive-based mechanisms for both policymakers and practitioners involved in PES scheme design and implementation.

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