title: Model for quantifying the synergies between farmland biodiversity conservation and water protection at catchment scale.
abstract: This paper studies joint provision of two environmental non-market commodities related to agriculture: biodiversity conservation and water protection. We provide an optimising tool for analysing spatial dependencies of multifunctional agriculture at catchment scale. We show that efficiency gains can be achieved by spatial allocation and choice of the type of vegetation. In particular, inclusion of meadow nectar plants in the founding grass seed mixture of set-asides was found out to be an economically efficient measure to promote biodiversity and water protection on warm, steep slopes.
authors.affiliation: MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: janne.helin@mtt.fi.
authors.forename: Janne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Helin
authors.forename: Kari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hyytiäinen
authors.forename: Eeva-Liisa
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Korpela
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuussaari
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D017753:Ecosystem; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000032:analysis; D060753:Water Quality
chemical_list: D009584:Nitrogen
keywords: Agricultural landscapes; GIS; Habitat index; Multifunctionality; Nitrogen; Non-linear optimisation; Nutrient abatement