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Grossman, Jake J.; University of Minnesota: Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; gross679@umn.edu. |
The trade-off between economically critical provisioning services and environmentally sustaining supporting services often seems absolute. Yet, when land use is inefficient, managers may be able to increase provision of both economically and ecologically sustaining services. To explore such sustainable "win-win" outcomes, I present a model of predicted trade-offs of provisioning and supporting services on smallholder farms in eastern Paraguay. The spatially implicit model simulates smallholder parcels as mosaics of subsistence agriculture, cattle pasture, eucalyptus plantations, and/or natural forest cover, and predicts provisioning and supporting service supply depending on the relative abundance of each land-use type per parcel. I represent provisioning... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Agroforestry; Biodiversity; Cash crops; Efficiency frontier; Eucalyptus; Plantation forestry. |
Ano: 2015 |
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