Trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services along landscape and local complexity gradients in the “Salad Bowl of the World”
Time: 12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall). Please check in at front desk on main floor before going downstairs.
No food or drinks allowed in the Beaty Museum.
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Talk summary:
Biodiversity and agricultural ecosystem services generally benefit from landscape and local scale habitat complexity, but trade-offs and synergies among different ecosystem services such as pollination, pest control, crop quality/yield, and soil health are crucial for land managers. Relationships between ecosystem function and habitat complexity can also be complicated by interactions between complexity at different scales. In California’s Salinas Valley region, the source of nearly half of the United States’ strawberries, previous work has shown that pest control by birds and arthropods, as well as abundance and diversity of these service providers, benefit from multi-scalar habitat diversity. The current project aims to reveal how habitat complexity at different scales may be managed to sustain biodiversity and facilitate a suite of ecosystem services according to stakeholder priorities.
Bio:
Adrian is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Claire Kremen to explore the synergies and trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services along multi-scalar habitat complexity gradients in California’s Central Coast strawberry growing region. At IRES, Adrian seeks to cultivate a deeper understanding of the relationships among traditional resource management, biocultural diversity, and human well-being. Trained as an ecologist and attorney, Adrian’s perennial challenge is to transform scientific findings into advocacy for the interests of marginalized communities.