TERROCO
TERRECO: Complex TERRain and ECOlogical Heterogeneity - Evaluating ecosystem services in production versus water yield and water quality in mountainous landscapes
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Emily Martin
Funding: DFG / KOSEF (International Research Training Group )
Duration: April 2008 – March 2011
Project:
The goals of TERRECO, thus, focus on building a bridge between spatial patterns of ecosystem performance in complex terrain and derived ecosystem services critical for human well being. A coordinated assessment framework will be developed for landscape to regional scale applications to quantify trade-offs, and determine how shifts in climate, land use and social response to global change pressures influence ecosystem services. In our subproject we study effects of landscape context and management on insect diversity and biological pest control.
Species groups: arthropods and vascular plants
Research area: South Korea
Habitat: agricultural fields, field margins
Methods: Transects, pit fall traps, exclosure experiments, GIS
More information: http://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/terreco
