Soil management shapes ecosystem service provision and trade-offs in agricultural landscapes
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Agroecosystems are principally managed to maximize food provisioning even if they receive a large array of supporting and regulating ecosystem services (ESs). Hence, comprehensive studies investigating the effects of local management and landscape composition on the provision of and trade-offs between multiple ESs are urgently needed. We explored the effects of conservation tillage, nitrogen fertilization and landscape composition on six ESs (crop production, disease control, soil fertility, water quality regulation, weed and pest control) in winter cereals. Conservation tillage enhanced soil fertility and pest control, decreased water quality regulation and weed control, without affecting crop production and disease control. Fertilization only influenced crop production by increasing grain yield. Landscape intensification reduced the provision of disease and pest control. We also found tillage and landscape composition to interactively affect water quality regulation and weed control. Under N fertilization, conventional tillage resulted in more trade-offs between ESs than conservation tillage. Our results demonstrate that soil management and landscape composition affect the provision of several ESs and that soil management potentially shapes the trade-offs between them.
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We only found 111 effect size combinations from 23 meta-analyses in which responses to diversification of crop yield and at least one other service were analyzed simultaneously.
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- Authors
- Tamburini, G., De Simone, S., Sigura, M., Boscutti, F., & Marini, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Padua (IT)
- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, Italy
- University of Udine (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Tamburini, Giovanni
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2016-08-31
- Volume
- 283
- Issue
- 1837
- Pages
- 20161369
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- PMC
- PMC5013797
- OpenAlex
- W2510389387
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 4.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine) (submittedVersion)
- CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Seventh Framework Programme (311781)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Keywords
- ecosystem services, ecosystem service trade-offs, soil management, conservation tillage, conventional tillage, nitrogen fertilization, landscape composition, winter cereals, pest control, weed control, disease control, soil fertility, water quality regulation, crop production, agroecosystems
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Conservation of Natural Resources, Soil, Ecosystem, Crops, Agricultural, Weed Control
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