INTentIonal agroBIOdiversity and incidental biodiversity: experimental assessment of nature-based solutions, global change modelling and scenarios for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services across scales
Our scientific objectives are to:
1. Quantify, within agricultural landscapes differing in complexity across Europe, USA and Argentina, the
impact of undersowing locally adapted plant mixtures in intensively grown crops on incidental biodiversity
and ecosystem services (crop production, pollination, pest and disease control, nutrient cycling).
2. Determine multifunctionality of ecosystem functions and services in intensively grown diversified
agricultural fields under different climatic situations including natural-agricultural transition zones in
agricultural landscapes differing in complexity for better ecosystem management and policy making
(Manning et al. 2018).
3. Evaluate short-term financial functions (yield, quality) and long-term sustainability functions (water and
nutrient retention) for an improved decision making process.
4. Develop and utilize modeling tools to assess how agricultural land-use decisions create additional costs
and benefits under different scenarios leading to optimal adoption of management practices at the regional
and national scale.
5. Identify obstacles in policy adoption and stakeholder behavior, which prevent best practices adoption.
6. Collaborate with local stakeholders to create scenarios that include instruments of agrobiodiversity. From
the beginning of the project, we aim at co-design and participatory feedback from stakeholders that will
support the transdisciplinary work.
7. Create a spatial scale-dependent institutional and policy analysis to disentangle the opportunities and
constraints for policies to halt or decrease the biodiversity loss at local (land managers), regional
(coordination of land managers), or European/global scale.
Acronym:
INTIBIO
Author:
Ferrio Díaz, Juan Pedro
Principal researcher:
Jasmin Joshi, University of Potsdam
Managing entity:
Otros
Scope:
Internacional
Entidades participantes:
University of Potsdam (Germany)
Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany)
Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research-ZALF (Germany)
agrathaer GmbH (Germany)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. CONICET (Argentina)
University of Idaho (USA)
University of Lleida (Spain)
University of Münster (Germany)
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Austria)
WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute (Switzerland)
Our scientific objectives are to:
1. Quantify, within agricultural landscapes differing in complexity across Europe, USA and Argentina, the
impact of undersowing locally adapted plant mixtures in intensively grown crops on incidental biodiversity
and ecosystem services (crop production, pollination, pest and disease control, nutrient cycling).
2. Determine multifunctionality of ecosystem functions and services in intensively grown diversified
agricultural fields under different climatic situations including natural-agricultural transition zones in
agricultural landscapes differing in complexity for better ecosystem management and policy making
(Manning et al. 2018).
3. Evaluate short-term financial functions (yield, quality) and long-term sustainability functions (water and
nutrient retention) for an improved decision making process.
4. Develop and utilize modeling tools to assess how agricultural land-use decisions create additional costs
and benefits under different scenarios leading to optimal adoption of management practices at the regional
and national scale.
5. Identify obstacles in policy adoption and stakeholder behavior, which prevent best practices adoption.
6. Collaborate with local stakeholders to create scenarios that include instruments of agrobiodiversity. From
the beginning of the project, we aim at co-design and participatory feedback from stakeholders that will
support the transdisciplinary work.
7. Create a spatial scale-dependent institutional and policy analysis to disentangle the opportunities and
constraints for policies to halt or decrease the biodiversity loss at local (land managers), regional
(coordination of land managers), or European/global scale.