Multiple Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant–Soil Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 397
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landscape ecology; management intensity; soil microbiome; biological control
Interests: crop protection; entomology; conservation biological control; habitat manipulation; organic management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The complex relationship between biological diversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes is generating considerable interest from both scientific and policy positions.
It has already been assumed that biodiversity is not only a factor controlling ecosystem processes, but also an end service of the ecosystem itself. However, in the current era of climate change, more than 60% of the ecosystem services are already deteriorated, with the consequent effects on the maintenance of productivity and food security.
In this scenario, it is essential to understand the effects of agricultural land use for the conservation of biodiversity and its relationship with ecosystem services. Requirements for research, practices, and policies affecting land management in relation to global food security should be reviewed.
This Special Edition is open to research articles from a broad scope of interdisciplinary research on questions on biodiversity–ecosystem function, ranging from ecological policy to applied ecology.
Research papers on the following topics are particularly welcome:
- Multitrophic interaction and biological control;
- Biological diversity and global change;
- Microbiome and soil functions;
- Integrating biodiversity into agricultural intensification;
- Functional diversity in cover crops/soil invertebrates and ecosystem services;
- Modeling multiple ecosystem services related to biodiversity;
- Soil quality and ecosystem restoration;
- Biodiversity and ecosystem policy.
Dr. Emilio Benitez
Dr. Rafael Alcalá
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- biological control
- landscape ecology
- management intensity
- carbon storage
- cover crops
- soil microbiome
- ecological policy-making
