Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities
and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation …

Context Agroecology combines agronomic and ecological concepts. It relies on the
enhancement of biodiversity and related ecosystem services to support agricultural …

Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon
sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances …

Agroforestry (AF) has become an important strategy in reconciling the contradictory
requirements of environmental protection and economic development in ecologically fragile …

Food security is threatened by the combined pressures of increasing populations and
climate change. Agricultural land is vulnerable to overexploitation and environmental …

Urban sprawl is a widely recognized phenomenon in many major cities worldwide and is a
significant land use planning and management issue. This process has many impacts on the …

Windbreaks are key structural elements in the rural environment and affect the functionality
of landscapes in multiple ways. A broad interdisciplinary view on these functions lacks in …

Alley cropping is defined as the planting of crops between widely spaced rows of trees. Tree–
crop combinations in alley cropping are developed with both production and ecological …

Annual row crops dominate agriculture around the world and have considerable negative
environmental impacts, including significant greenhouse gas emissions. Transformative …

The concept of ecosystem services, especially in combination with economic valuation, can
illuminate trade-offs involved in soil management, policy and governance, and thus support …