Unraveling the trade-off relationship between food production and biodiversity

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25830154
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Conservation of biological resources
• Research Institution: National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (2016-2017); National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (2013-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Katayama Naoki 国立研究開発法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 農業環境変動研究センター, 研究員 (10631054)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 生物多様性 / 環境保全型農業 / 耕作放棄

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main achievements of my research were as follows; (1) Unraveling the post-war changes in agricultural practices and their effects on farmland biodiversity by literature review (Agrit. Syst.), (2) Quantifying the effects of organic and low-input farming on farmland biodiversity and the trade-offs between yield and biodiversity, by large-scale field surveys and statistical modelling (Sci. Rep., Ornithol. Sci., and in preparation), and (3) Understanding the effect of rice-field abandonment and fallow on biodiversity by a meta-analysis (Cons. Biol.) .

Free Research Field

生態学