Improving ecosystem services in farmlands: beginning of a long-term ecological study with restored flower-rich grasslands
| Autor: | András Báldi, Raoul Pellaton, Áron Domonkos Bihaly, Viktor Szigeti, Eszter Lellei-Kovács, András Máté, Miklós Sárospataki, Zoltán Soltész, László Somay, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 20964129 2332-8878 2096-4129 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/20964129.2022.2090449 |
| Popis: | Biodiversity declines in an unprecedented way, mostly due to land use change. Restoration interventions proved to be one of the most effective tools to halt the decline, especially in ecosystems such as agricultural fields. Evidence-based, locally adapted recommendations on grassland restoration, however, are often missing, so we present a novel approach for such interventions that can be implemented anywhere and that are based on scientific rigor. In a recently started long-term field ecological study, we established 0.5 ha wildflower parcels, using a diverse local seed mixture of 32 insect-visited plant species in Central European agricultural landscapes in 2020. Our focus is on the landscape-scale effects of this ecological intensification on ecosystem services such as crop yield, pollination and pest control, and the long-term monitoring of the successional processes. The aim is to showcase an effective restoration protocol that could serve as a model for future farm management, and provide much-needed evidence for policy on landscape ecological restoration of international relevance. |
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