Mixtures of forest and agroforestry alleviate trade-offs between ecosystem services in European rural landscapes

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dc.contributor.authorRolo, Victor
dc.contributor.authorRoces-Díaz, José V.
dc.contributor.authorTorralba, Mario
dc.contributor.authorKay, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorFagerholm, Nora
dc.contributor.authorAviron, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, Paul
dc.contributor.authorCrous-Duran, Josep
dc.contributor.authorFerreiro-Domínguez, Nuria
dc.contributor.authorGraves, Anil
dc.contributor.authorHartel, Tibor
dc.contributor.authorMantzanas, Konstantinos
dc.contributor.authorMosquera-Losada, María Rosa
dc.contributor.authorPalma, João H. N.
dc.contributor.authorSidiropoulou, Anna
dc.contributor.authorSzerencsits, Erich
dc.contributor.authorViaud, Valérie
dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Felix
dc.contributor.authorPlieninger, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorMoreno, Gerardo
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-29T11:56:20Z
dc.date.available2021-06-29T11:56:20Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-17
dc.description.abstractRural Europe encompasses a variety of landscapes with differing levels of forest, agriculture, and agroforestry that can deliver multiple ecosystem services (ES). Whilst provisioning and regulating ES associated with individual land covers are comparatively well studied, less is known about the associated cultural ES. Only seldom are provisioning, regulating, and cultural ES investigated together to evaluate how they contribute to multifunctionality. In this study we combined biophysical and sociocultural approaches to assess how different landscapes (dominated by forest, agriculture or agroforestry) and landscape characteristics (i.e. remoteness and landscape diversity) drive spatial associations of ES (i.e. synergies, trade-offs and bundles). We analysed data of: i) seven provisioning and regulating ES (spatially modelled), and; ii) six cultural ES (derived from participatory mapping data) in 12 study sites across four different biogeographical regions of Europe. Our results showed highly differentiated ES profiles for landscapes associated to a specific land cover, with agroforestry generally providing higher cultural ES than forest and agriculture. We found a positive relationship between the proportion of forest in a landscape and provisioning and regulating ES, whilst agriculture showed negative relationships. We found four distinct bundles of ES. Three of them were directly related to a dominant land cover and the fourth to a mixture of forest and agroforestry that was associated with high social value. The latter bundle was related to zones close to urban areas and roads and medium to high landscape diversity. These findings suggest that agroforestry should be prioritised over other land covers in such areas as it delivers a suite of multiple ES, provided it is close to urban areas or roads. Our results also illustrate the importance and application of including people’s perception in the assessment of ES associations and highlight the relevance of developing integrated analyses of ES to inform landscape management decisions.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationRolo V, Roces-Diaz JV, Torralba M, et al., (2021) Mixtures of forest and agroforestry alleviate trade-offs between ecosystem services in European rural landscapes. Ecosystem Services, Volume 50, August 2021, Article number 101318en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2212-0416
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101318
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/16819
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectPublic participatory GISen_UK
dc.subjectEcosystem services bundlesen_UK
dc.subjectAgroforestry systemsen_UK
dc.subjectPerceived landscape valuesen_UK
dc.subjectMultifunctionalityen_UK
dc.titleMixtures of forest and agroforestry alleviate trade-offs between ecosystem services in European rural landscapesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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