TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kessler, Michael
A1  - Hertel, Dietrich
A1  - Jungkunst, Hermann F.
A1  - Kluge, Jürgen
A1  - Abrahamczyk, Stefan
A1  - Bos, Merijn
A1  - Buchori, Damayanti
A1  - Gerold, Gerhard
A1  - Gradstein, S. Robbert
A1  - Köhler, Stefan
A1  - Leuschner, Christoph
A1  - Moser, Gerald
A1  - Pitopang, Ramadhanil
A1  - Saleh, Shahabuddin
A1  - Schulze, Christian H.
A1  - Sporn, Simone G.
A1  - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
A1  - Tjitrosoedirdjo, Sri S.
A1  - Tscharntke, Teja
T1  - Can Joint Carbon and Biodiversity Management in Tropical Agroforestry Landscapes Be Optimized?
JF  - PLoS One
N2  - Managing ecosystems for carbon storage may also benefit biodiversity conservation, but such a potential 'win-win' scenario has not yet been assessed for tropical agroforestry landscapes. We measured above-and below-ground carbon stocks as well as the species richness of four groups of plants and eight of animals on 14 representative plots in Sulawesi, Indonesia, ranging from natural rainforest to cacao agroforests that have replaced former natural forest. The conversion of natural forests with carbon stocks of 227-362 Mg C ha\(^{-1}\) to agroforests with 82-211 Mg C ha\(^{-1}\) showed no relationships to overall biodiversity but led to a significant loss of forest-related species richness. We conclude that the conservation of the forest-related biodiversity, and to a lesser degree of carbon stocks, mainly depends on the preservation of natural forest habitats. In the three most carbon-rich agroforestry systems, carbon stocks were about 60% of those of natural forest, suggesting that 1.6 ha of optimally managed agroforest can contribute to the conservation of carbon stocks as much as 1 ha of natural forest. However, agroforestry systems had comparatively low biodiversity, and we found no evidence for a tight link between carbon storage and biodiversity. Yet, potential win-win agroforestry management solutions include combining high shade-tree quality which favours biodiversity with cacao-yield adapted shade levels.
KW  - forest soils
KW  - stocks
KW  - diversity
KW  - sequestration
KW  - conversion
KW  - balance
KW  - root
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-132016
VL  - 7
IS  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gámez-Virués, Sagrario
A1  - Perović, David J.
A1  - Gossner, Martin M.
A1  - Börschig, Carmen
A1  - Blüthgen, Nico
A1  - de Jong, Heike
A1  - Simons, Nadja K.
A1  - Klein, Alexandra-Maria
A1  - Krauss, Jochen
A1  - Maier, Gwen
A1  - Scherber, Christoph
A1  - Steckel, Juliane
A1  - Rothenwöhrer, Christoph
A1  - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
A1  - Weiner, Christiane N.
A1  - Weisser, Wolfgang
A1  - Werner, Michael
A1  - Tscharntke, Teja
A1  - Westphal, Catrin
T1  - Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Biodiversity loss can affect the viability of ecosystems by decreasing the ability of communities to respond to environmental change and disturbances. Agricultural intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss and has multiple components operating at different spatial scales: from in-field management intensity to landscape-scale simplification. Here we show that landscape-level effects dominate functional community composition and can even buffer the effects of in-field management intensification on functional homogenization, and that animal communities in real-world managed landscapes show a unified response (across orders and guilds) to both landscape-scale simplification and in-field intensification. Adults and larvae with specialized feeding habits, species with shorter activity periods and relatively small body sizes are selected against in simplified landscapes with intense in-field management. Our results demonstrate that the diversity of land cover types at the landscape scale is critical for maintaining communities, which are functionally diverse, even in landscapes where in-field management intensity is high.
KW  - land-use intensity
KW  - community functional-responses
KW  - body-size
KW  - agricultural intensification
KW  - sustainable intensification
KW  - managed grasslands
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - diversity
KW  - heterogenity
KW  - butterflies
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-141925
VL  - 6
IS  - 8568
ER  -