RT Journal Article
T1 Why do agroforestry systems enhance biodiversity? Evidence from habitat amount hypothesis predictions
A1 Santos, Mário
A1 Cajaiba, Reinaldo Lucas
A1 Bastos, Rita
A1 Gonzalez, Darinka,
A1 Petrescu Bakış, Alis Luciana
A1 Ferreira, Daniel
A1 Leote, Pedro
A1 Barreto da Silva, Wully
A1 Cabral, João Alexander
A1 Gonçalves, Berta
A1 Mosquera Losada, María Rosa
K1 Land-sharing
K1 Land-sparing
K1 Agroecosystems
K1 Trade-offs
K1 Landscape heterogeneity
K1 Fragmentation
K1 Biodiversity management
AB Considering the present ecological crisis, land use-biodiversity relationships have become a major topic in landscape planning, ecosystem management and ecological restoration. In this scope, consistent patterns of outstanding biodiversity have been identified in agroforestry systems within diverse biogeographic regions and types of management. Empirical work has revealed that agroforestry higher structural complexity, when compared with current simplified agricultural systems, might be partially responsible for the observed patterns. The recently developed Habitat Amount Hypothesis predicts diversity for a local habitat patch, from the amount of the same habitat within the local landscape. We have expanded the previous hypothesis to the landscape level, computing the influence of the dominant land uses on the diversity of coexisting guilds. As a case study, we have considered archetypal landscapes dominated (or co-dominated) by crops or trees, which were compared using normalized diversities. The results obtained show that agroforestry systems substantially increase functional diversity and overall biodiversity within landscapes. We highlight that the normalized values should be parametrized to real conditions where the type of crop, tree and agroecological management will make a difference. Most importantly, our findings provide additional evidence that agroforestry has a critical role in enhancing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and, in this way, should be regarded as a priority measure in European Agri-environmental funding schemes
PB Frontiers
SN 2296-701X
YR 2022
FD 2022-01-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44267
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44267
LA eng
NO Santos M, Cajaiba RL, Bastos R, Gonzalez D, Petrescu Bakı ¸s A-L, Ferreira D, Leote P, Barreto da Silva W, Cabral JA, Gonçalves B and Mosquera-Losada MR (2022) Why Do Agroforestry Systems Enhance Biodiversity? Evidence From Habitat Amount Hypothesis Predictions. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:630151. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.630151
NO MM-L was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity through “Sistemas agroforestales para la producción de cereal como estrategia de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático en el ámbito de la península ibérica” (AFCLIMA) (CTM2016-80176-C2-1-R) from the Retos Investigación Programme
DS Minerva
RD 18 abr 2026