TY - CHAP

T1 - Biodiversity-friendly farming

AU - Fischer, Jörn

AU - Brittain, Claire

AU - Klein, Alexandra-Maria

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

PY - 2013/1/1

Y1 - 2013/1/1

N2 - With a growing global demand for food and fiber, a critical challenge is to integrate agricultural commodity production and biodiversity conservation. Local-scale measures that typically help to achieve such integration are the retention of patches of native vegetation, the maintenance of structural complexity in farmed areas, minimizing chemical use, and using practices that are locally proven to benefit biodiversity. At a landscape-scale, structural connectivity and landscape heterogeneity are likely to benefit biodiversity. Although intensive land use may be appropriate in some situations, in many cases, biodiversity conservation and commodity production can be successfully integrated.

AB - With a growing global demand for food and fiber, a critical challenge is to integrate agricultural commodity production and biodiversity conservation. Local-scale measures that typically help to achieve such integration are the retention of patches of native vegetation, the maintenance of structural complexity in farmed areas, minimizing chemical use, and using practices that are locally proven to benefit biodiversity. At a landscape-scale, structural connectivity and landscape heterogeneity are likely to benefit biodiversity. Although intensive land use may be appropriate in some situations, in many cases, biodiversity conservation and commodity production can be successfully integrated.

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - agriculture

KW - connectivity

KW - conservation

KW - countryside biogeography

KW - land sparing

KW - landscape heterogeneity

KW - Livestock grazing

KW - matrix

KW - Pest control

KW - Pollination

KW - scattered trees

KW - Shade coffee

KW - Structural complexity

KW - wildlife-friendly farming

KW - Biology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85013844978&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b8dcc115-f847-3f5a-9e83-b927d08173dd/

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00331-2

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00331-2

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-0-12-384720-1

SP - 418

EP - 429

BT - Encyclopedia of Biodiversity

A2 - Levin, Simon A.

PB - Elsevier Scientific Publishing

CY - New York

ER -