ArticleGlobal change biology2025
Enhancement of Agroecosystem Multifunctionality by Agroforestry: A Global Quantitative Summary.
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- The Ecological Role Of Traditional Home Gardens In Facilitating Bird Movement In Human-Modified Tropical Landscapes.Environmental management · 2026Article
- Global Bias-Aware Synthesis of Meta-Analyses Reveals Agroforestry's Potential for Improving Soil Health.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Urban agroforestry compositions influence ecosystem multifunctionality and service interactions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Driving Effects of Soil Microbial Diversity on Soil Multifunctionality inMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Tree diversity and soil fertility interactions drive carbon storage in degraded cocoa landscapes of Côte d'Ivoire.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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Abstract
In comparison with conventional agriculture, agroforestry systems improve the delivery of multiple ecosystem services and support greater biodiversity. Yet, the effects of agroforestry on various ecosystem services and biodiversity vary worldwide between climatic regions and system types, and studies often focus on measuring a small number of services or biodiversity indicators. We conducted a quantitative summary of multiple large-scale meta-analyses comparing service delivery or biodiversity between agroforestry systems and conventional agricultural systems to capture the global effect of agroforestry on agroecosystem multifunctionality. Data were aggregated from 20 meta-analyses, many of them global, and response ratios were calculated to assess relative effects of agroforestry systems worldwide on multiple categories of biodiversity indicators and production, regulation, and support services. By combining different datasets that addressed specific ecosystem services or biodiversity indicators and analyzing 3075 comparisons between agroforestry systems and their conventional counterparts, we found that agroforestry enhanced ecosystem service delivery and biodiversity globally by an average of 23%. The effects were more pronounced on supporting and regulating services and biodiversity than on production services. The vast majority of analyzed services and biodiversity indicators were enhanced in agroforestry systems, while few were either not affected or affected negatively. Among ecosystem services analyzed along an aridity gradient, only soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and forage production varied significantly. The positive effects of agroforestry on SOC stocks were stronger in drier conditions, while those on forage production followed a quadratic trend, with maximal benefits in arid conditions. Our results suggest that broad-scale adoption of agroforestry in conventional agriculture could benefit agroecosystem multifunctionality globally without sacrificing productivity and would help support sustainable food production.
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