title: Soil management shapes ecosystem service provision and trade-offs in agricultural landscapes.
abstract: Agroecosystems are principally managed to maximize food provisioning even if they receive a large array of supporting and regulating ecosystem services (ESs). Hence, comprehensive studies investigating the effects of local management and landscape composition on the provision of and trade-offs between multiple ESs are urgently needed. We explored the effects of conservation tillage, nitrogen fertilization and landscape composition on six ESs (crop production, disease control, soil fertility, water quality regulation, weed and pest control) in winter cereals. Conservation tillage enhanced soil fertility and pest control, decreased water quality regulation and weed control, without affecting crop production and disease control. Fertilization only influenced crop production by increasing grain yield. Landscape intensification reduced the provision of disease and pest control. We also found tillage and landscape composition to interactively affect water quality regulation and weed control. Under N fertilization, conventional tillage resulted in more trade-offs between ESs than conservation tillage. Our results demonstrate that soil management and landscape composition affect the provision of several ESs and that soil management potentially shapes the trade-offs between them.
authors: DAFNAE-Entomology, University of Padova, viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro, Padova, Italy giovanni.tamburini@unipd.it.
authors: Giovanni
authors: 0000-0001-7546-8183
authors: G
authors: Tamburini
authors: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, Italy.
authors: Serena
authors: S
authors: De Simone
authors: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, Italy.
authors: Maurizia
authors: M
authors: Sigura
authors: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, Italy.
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Boscutti
authors: DAFNAE-Entomology, University of Padova, viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro, Padova, Italy.
authors: Lorenzo
authors: L
authors: Marini
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural; D017753:Ecosystem; D012987:Soil; D058728:Weed Control
chemical_list: D012987:Soil
keywords: agriculture intensification; conservation tillage; crop yield; nitrogen fertilization; pest control; soil fertility