Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture Export

@article{citeulike:3025771, abstract = {Agricultural ecosystems are actively managed by humans to optimize the provision of food, fiber, and fuel. These ecosystem services from agriculture, classified as provisioning services by the recent Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, depend in turn upon a web of supporting and regulating services as inputs to production (e.g., soil fertility and pollination). Agriculture also receives ecosystem dis-services that reduce productivity or increase production costs (e.g., herbivory and competition for water and nutrients by undesired species). The flows of these services and dis-services directly depend on how agricultural ecosystems are managed and upon the diversity, composition, and functioning of remaining natural ecosystems in the landscape. Managing agricultural landscapes to provide sufficient supporting and regulating ecosystem services and fewer dis-services will require research that is policy-relevant, multidisciplinary and collaborative. This paper focuses on how ecosystem services contribute to agricultural productivity and how ecosystem dis-services detract from it. We first describe the major services and dis-services as well as their key mediators. We then explore the importance of scale and economic externalities for the management of ecosystem service provision to agriculture. Finally, we discuss outstanding issues in regard to improving the management of ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture.}, author = {Zhang, Wei and Ricketts, Taylor H. and Kremen, Claire and Carney, Karen and Swinton, Scott M.}, booktitle = {Special Section - Ecosystem Services and Agriculture - Ecosystem Services and Agriculture}, citeulike-article-id = {3025771}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.02.024}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VDY-4NCK2BM-2/1/5fe45ba919603ab1d14af2c8ae358684}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.02.024}, journal = {Ecological Economics}, keywords = {agriculture, ecosystem-services}, month = {December}, number = {2}, pages = {253--260}, posted-at = {2008-07-21 23:06:05}, priority = {4}, title = {Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.02.024}, volume = {64}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3025771 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3025771 N2 - Agricultural ecosystems are actively managed by humans to optimize the provision of food, fiber, and fuel. These ecosystem services from agriculture, classified as provisioning services by the recent Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, depend in turn upon a web of supporting and regulating services as inputs to production (e.g., soil fertility and pollination). Agriculture also receives ecosystem dis-services that reduce productivity or increase production costs (e.g., herbivory and competition for water and nutrients by undesired species). The flows of these services and dis-services directly depend on how agricultural ecosystems are managed and upon the diversity, composition, and functioning of remaining natural ecosystems in the landscape. Managing agricultural landscapes to provide sufficient supporting and regulating ecosystem services and fewer dis-services will require research that is policy-relevant, multidisciplinary and collaborative. This paper focuses on how ecosystem services contribute to agricultural productivity and how ecosystem dis-services detract from it. We first describe the major services and dis-services as well as their key mediators. We then explore the importance of scale and economic externalities for the management of ecosystem service provision to agriculture. Finally, we discuss outstanding issues in regard to improving the management of ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture. IS - 2 JF - Ecological Economics EP - 260 TI - Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture VL - 64 T2 - Special Section - Ecosystem Services and Agriculture - Ecosystem Services and Agriculture SP - 253 KW - agriculture KW - ecosystem-services AU - Zhang, Wei AU - Ricketts, Taylor AU - Kremen, Claire AU - Carney, Karen AU - Swinton, Scott PY - 2007/12/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.02.024 ER -