Abstract
Natural pest control is an ecosystem service that appears to be affected by ecosystem
characteristics at spatial scales from field to landscape. Changes in land use and land
management at the field level to enhance pest control depend on a small number of decision
makers. In contrast, changes at the landscape level involve multiple stakeholders, multiple
objectives and biophysical interactions among multiple scales. Natural pest control is then one of
a set of ecosystem services that needs to be addressed simultaneously, often in a negotiation
setting. Science has a role to play by bringing together knowledge that informs decision making
based on insight in trade-offs and win-win situations, and the associated land use patterns. To
enable such an integrated assessment of ecosystem services an approach is needed that can deal
with multiple scales, multiple objectives and multi-stakeholder settings. Here we describe an
integrated, spatially explicit land use assessment approach named Landscape IMAGES. We
illustrate the approach for a case study with spatially implicit and spatially explicit indicators and
describe how natural pest control can be accommodated.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IOBC Working Group “Landscape Management for Functional biodiversity", Lleida, Spain |
Publisher | IOBC |
Pages | 173-177 |
Volume | 75 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Event | IOBC Working Group “Landscape Management for Functional biodiversity", Lleida, Spain - Duration: 7 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 |
Conference
Conference | IOBC Working Group “Landscape Management for Functional biodiversity", Lleida, Spain |
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Period | 7/05/12 → 10/05/12 |