Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes

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Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes. / Olschewski, Roland; Klein, Alexandra-Maria; Tscharntke, Teja.
in: Ecological Complexity, Jahrgang 7, Nr. 3, 09.2010, S. 314–319.

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title = "Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes",
abstract = "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment distinguishes between supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural ecosystem services. Wefocus on three services, namely the provision of timber, the regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the supporting service of bee pollination for coffee production. Possible trade-offs between the different ecosystem services might result in a reduced attractiveness of afforestation projects when taking pollination services into account. We found that economic losses due to a limited reduction of tree density of a Cordia alliodora plantation can be overcompensated bygenerating pollination services to adjacent coffee agroforestry systems. Thus, for moderate silvicultural interventions such trade-offs do not necessarily occur. Including additional ecosystem services such as biological pest control or seed dispersal, which are also associated with the enhanced functional biodiversity in less dense tree plantations, might further emphasize the hump-shaped relationship between tree density and forest revenues.",
keywords = "Ecosystems Research, Coffee, agroforestry, Reforestry, ecosystem service, Biology, Coffee, Agroforestry , Reforestation , Ecosystem Services",
author = "Roland Olschewski and Alexandra-Maria Klein and Teja Tscharntke",
year = "2010",
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AU - Olschewski, Roland

AU - Klein, Alexandra-Maria

AU - Tscharntke, Teja

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N2 - The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment distinguishes between supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural ecosystem services. Wefocus on three services, namely the provision of timber, the regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the supporting service of bee pollination for coffee production. Possible trade-offs between the different ecosystem services might result in a reduced attractiveness of afforestation projects when taking pollination services into account. We found that economic losses due to a limited reduction of tree density of a Cordia alliodora plantation can be overcompensated bygenerating pollination services to adjacent coffee agroforestry systems. Thus, for moderate silvicultural interventions such trade-offs do not necessarily occur. Including additional ecosystem services such as biological pest control or seed dispersal, which are also associated with the enhanced functional biodiversity in less dense tree plantations, might further emphasize the hump-shaped relationship between tree density and forest revenues.

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KW - agroforestry

KW - Reforestry

KW - ecosystem service

KW - Biology

KW - Coffee

KW - Agroforestry

KW - Reforestation

KW - Ecosystem Services

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