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Ecoagricultural landscape for biodiversity conservation and ecological service maintenance

Loss of biodiversity and associated ecological services in agricultural landscape caused by intensive agricultural production have greatly threatened sustainable agricultural development. Landscape management, together with less intensive practices such as organic agricultural production, should be carefully considered when developing strategies for biodiversity and ecological service restorations as landscape structures have potential strong effects on ecosystem services such as the biodiversity maintenance, natural pest control, pollination, etc. Eco-agricultural landscapes, which are characterized by optimized landscape configuration and management at different scales, could be designed and managed to improve the ecological services and agricultural sustainability. Potential measures of eco-agricultural landscapes are put forward in this paper, such as proper configuration of crop and non-crop areas at regional and landscape level to ensure ecological security and stability; designing and constructing ecological infrastructure (like beetle-bank and wildflowers belts) for essential ecological services at the edges between fields; applying diversified planting and optimized farming practices at field scale to reconcile agricultural production and nature conservation; and integrating landscape planning with eco-cycle engineering to ensure efficient utilization of agricultural resources.

Title of publication: Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture
Volume: 20
Issue: 7
ISSN: 1671-3990
Nombre de pages: 819-824
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Année: 2012
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Pays: China
Couverture géographique: Asie et le Pacifique
Langue: Chinese (Traditional)
Author: Liu Yun-Hui , Zhang Xin, Zhang Xu-Zhu, Duan Mei-Chun
Type: article de journal
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