Aesthetic quality of agricultural landscape elements in different seasonal stages in Switzerland

Junge, Xenia; Schüpbach, Béatrice; Walter, Thomas; Schmid, Bernhard; Lindemann‐Matthies, Petra

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.09.010

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“…The vegetation is important aesthetically and visually, provides biological connections and mitigates the impact of human activities (Junge et al, 2015). Creating a network of vegetation is an efficient way of responding to the progressive reduction in biodiversity and the consequent degradation of the landscape (Klein et al, 2015).…”

Section: Phase 4: Projectmentioning

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A landscape project for the coexistence of agriculture and nature: a proposal for the coastal area of a Natura 2000 site in Sicily (Italy)

Riguccio

Carullo

Russo

et al. 2016

J Agricult Engineer

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Many rural coastal Mediterranean areas suffer from great anthropomorphic pressure. This is due to intensive agriculture, and construction for residential, tourism and industrial uses.The present work investigates the idea of using a landscape project in the Gulf of Gela in South Sicily to recover the dunes and the area behind them. The method used is based on the literature and will evaluate and interpret the dynamics of the landscape, so as to draw up a landscape plan, which can be used to help sustain the assets of the area, in a way, which is compatible with conserving nature. This method was tested in the LIFE11-Leopoldia project, funded by the European Union. The results of the study form part of the landscape project. This project is aimed at connecting the different productive zones in the area, protecting the natural environments and the rural historical patrimony, through combining the modern road networks with the older slower, historic infrastructure. Three different levels of landscape management are proposed: total protection (the dunes), high-level protection (the area behind the dunes where traditional agriculture is practised, buffer areas and ecological connecting areas), medium levels of protection (sustainable agriculture, green connections and ecological corridors). The key aims of the project are as follows: transversality -repairing the agricultural fabric and the relationship between the land and the sea; sustainability -recovering the environmental system and traditional activities; flexibility -agriculture with only minor environmental impact.

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A landscape project for the coexistence of agriculture and nature: a proposal for the coastal area of a Natura 2000 site in Sicily (Italy)

Riguccio

Carullo

Russo

et al. 2016

J Agricult Engineer

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“…Species-rich, flower-rich views improve the aesthetic value of landscapes, roadsides, field margins, and meadows (32)(33)(34)(35)(36), and increased flower color diversity may provide higher CES value, especially in rural landscapes (34,(37)(38)(39)(40). Lindemann-Matthies et al (40) demonstrated that aesthetic appreciation increased with perceived species richness.…”

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Species richness alone does not predict cultural ecosystem service value

Graves

Pearson

Turner

2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Many biodiversity-ecosystem services studies omit cultural ecosystem services (CES) or use species richness as a proxy and assume that more species confer greater CES value. We studied wildflower viewing, a key biodiversity-based CES in amenitybased landscapes, in Southern Appalachian Mountain forests and asked (i) How do aesthetic preferences for wildflower communities vary with components of biodiversity, including species richness?; (ii) How do aesthetic preferences for wildflower communities vary across psychographic groups?; and (iii) How well does species richness perform as an indicator of CES value compared with revealed social preferences for wildflower communities? Public forest visitors (n = 293) were surveyed during the summer of 2015 and asked to choose among images of wildflower communities in which flower species richness, flower abundance, species evenness, color diversity, and presence of charismatic species had been digitally manipulated. Aesthetic preferences among images were unrelated to species richness but increased with more abundant flowers, greater species evenness, and greater color diversity. Aesthetic preferences were consistent across psychographic groups and unaffected by knowledge of local flora or value placed on wildflower viewing. When actual wildflower communities (n = 54) were ranked based on empirically measured flower species richness or wildflower viewing utility based on multinomial logit models of revealed preferences, rankings were broadly similar. However, designation of hotspots (CES values above the median) based on species richness alone missed 27% of wildflower viewing utility hotspots. Thus, conservation priorities for sustaining CES should incorporate social preferences and consider multiple dimensions of biodiversity that underpin CES supply. discrete choice | aesthetics | biodiversity | wildflowers | amenity-based landscape

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“…This refers to landscape complexity as an explanatory factor for landscape preference [112]. Landscape perception and rating is strongly positively influenced by flowering stages and the perceived diversity and naturalness of landscape elements [113].…”

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Supporting Agricultural Ecosystem Services through the Integration of Perennial Polycultures into Crop Rotations

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This review analyzes the potential role and long-term effects of field perennial polycultures (mixtures) in agricultural systems, with the aim of reducing the trade-offs between provisioning and regulating ecosystem services. First, crop rotations are identified as a suitable tool for the assessment of the long-term effects of perennial polycultures on ecosystem services, which are not visible at the single-crop level. Second, the ability of perennial polycultures to support ecosystem services when used in crop rotations is quantified through eight agricultural ecosystem services. Legume-grass mixtures and wildflower mixtures are used as examples of perennial polycultures, and compared with silage maize as a typical crop for biomass production. Perennial polycultures enhance soil fertility, soil protection, climate regulation, pollination, pest and weed control, and landscape aesthetics compared with maize. They also score lower for biomass production compared with maize, which confirms the trade-off between provisioning and regulating ecosystem services. However, the additional positive factors provided by perennial polycultures, such as reduced costs for mineral fertilizer, pesticides, and soil tillage, and a significant preceding crop effect that increases the yields of subsequent crops, should be taken into account. However, a full assessment of agricultural ecosystem services requires a more holistic analysis that is beyond the capabilities of current frameworks.

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Aesthetic quality of agricultural landscape elements in different seasonal stages in Switzerland

Cited by 129 publications

References 56 publications

A landscape project for the coexistence of agriculture and nature: a proposal for the coastal area of a Natura 2000 site in Sicily (Italy)

A landscape project for the coexistence of agriculture and nature: a proposal for the coastal area of a Natura 2000 site in Sicily (Italy)

Species richness alone does not predict cultural ecosystem service value

Supporting Agricultural Ecosystem Services through the Integration of Perennial Polycultures into Crop Rotations

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