The network of shelterbelts as an agroforestry system controlling the water resources and biodiversity in the agricultural landscape
Journal Title: Papers on Global Change IGBP - Year 2015, Vol 22, Issue 22
Abstract
Long-term human activity has led to many unfavourable changes in landscape structure. The main negative effect has been a simplifi cation of landscape structure refl ecting the removal of stable ecosystems, such as forests, shelterbelts, strips of meadows and so on, which were converted into unstable ecosystems, mainly farmlands. Thanks to these changes, serious threats have been posed to the sustainable development of rural areas. The most hazardous of these involve a deteriorating of water balance, increased surface and ground water pollution, and impoverishment of biodiversity. An agroforestry system can serve as a toolkit which allows counteracting such negative changes in the landscape. This paper presents the main fi ndings emerge from long-term investigations on the above issues carried out by the Institute for the Agricultural and Forest Environment of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Andrzej j Kędziora
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- EP ID EP349767
- DOI 10.1515/igbp-2015-0016
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