Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco Ricardo Torres
. Tobias Kuemmerle
. Marcelo R. Zak
Received: 29 August 2020 / Accepted: 6 November 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Context Better balancing agricultural production and biodiversity conservation is a central goal for many landscapes. Yet, empirical work on how to best achieve such a balance has focused mainly on the local scale, thereby disregarding that landscape context might mediate biodiversity-agriculture trade-offs. Objectives Focusing on vertebrates in the Argentine Chaco, we evaluate how trade-offs between agriculture and biodiversity vary with landscape context, from landscapes where agricultural and natural areas are separated to landscapes where both are interspersed.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01155-w) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. R. Torres (&) Laboratorio de Biogeografı´a Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fı´sicas y Naturales, Museo de Zoologı´a, and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientı´ficas y Te´cnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Diversidad y Ecologı´a Animal (IDEA), Universidad Nacional de Co´rdoba, Ve´lez Sarsfield 299, X5000JJC Co´rdoba, Argentina e-mail: [email protected]
Methods We modelled the distributions of 226 vertebrates and use the resulting maps to describe the species richness of ecosystem-service providing guilds. We calculated three agricultural intensity metrics, and evaluated how both species richness and agricultural intensity vary along a gradient of landscape configuration, while controlling for landscape composition. Results Species richness and agricultural yields both varied with landscape configuration. Biodiversity was highest in mixed landscapes where agricultural and natural area are interspersed, whereas agricultural yields showed a more heterogeneous response, with some yield metrics highest in mixed and others in separated landscapes. As a result, agriculture/biodiversity trade-offs depended strongly on landscape
M. R. Zak Ca´tedra de Recursos Naturales y Gestio´n Ambiental, Facultad de Filosofı´a y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Co´rdoba, and Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologı´a Vegetal (IMBIV, CONICET-UNC), Co´rdoba, Argentina
T. Kuemmerle Geography Department and Integrative Research Institute on Transformation in Human Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universita¨t zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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configuration, irrespective of landscape composition. We also identified large areas with low vertebrate richness and agricultural yields, suggesting considerable potential for improving in at least one dimension. Conclusions Agriculture/biodiversity trade-offs varied with landscape configuration, suggesting that landscape design can balance these trade-offs. Our simple and broadly appl
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