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Yann Clough. Foto.

Yann Clough

Professor

Yann Clough. Foto.

Benefits for multiple ecosystem services in Peruvian coffee agroforestry systems without reducing yield

Författare

  • Rosalien E. Jezeer
  • Maria J. Santos
  • Pita A. Verweij
  • René G.A. Boot
  • Yann Clough

Summary, in English

Crop production often comes at the expense of losses in ecosystem services and biodiversity; however, this might not always be the case. Here we test the effects of shade gradients and agricultural inputs on trade-offs or synergies between coffee yield and ecosystem services and biodiversity data for smallholder coffee plantations of Arabica coffee in Peru. We collected data using surveys (n = 162 farmers) and field sampling (n = 62 farms) and modelled the relationship between coffee yield, butterfly species richness and carbon storage, accounting for soil fertility and yield losses to pests and diseases. We found that both carbon and forest butterfly species richness were higher in plantations with more shade, and with no reduction in coffee yields with increasing shade. There were no significant correlations between coffee yield, forest butterfly species richness and carbon storage. Use of agricultural inputs, especially fertilizers, was highest in sites with low coffee yield, but was not related with either forest butterfly species richness or carbon. The lack of trade-offs between yield, forest butterfly species richness and carbon, and their relationships with shade and agricultural inputs suggest that it is possible to manage coffee agroforests to simultaneously provide multiple ecosystem services without reducing coffee yields.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2019

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Ecosystem Services

Volym

40

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

Nyckelord

  • Arabica coffee
  • Butterfly species richness
  • Carbon storage
  • Ecosystem services
  • Shade and input management
  • Trade-offs

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2212-0416