Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Standard
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, Vol. 7, No. 3, 09.2010, p. 314–319.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes
AU - Olschewski, Roland
AU - Klein, Alexandra-Maria
AU - Tscharntke, Teja
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
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.
AB - 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.
KW - Ecosystems Research
KW - Coffee
KW - agroforestry
KW - Reforestry
KW - ecosystem service
KW - Biology
KW - Coffee
KW - Agroforestry
KW - Reforestation
KW - Ecosystem Services
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955364287&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecocom.2010.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ecocom.2010.01.002
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 7
SP - 314
EP - 319
JO - Ecological Complexity
JF - Ecological Complexity
SN - 1476-945X
IS - 3
ER -