Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
Ambio. 2021 Jul;50(7):1295-1298. doi: 10.1007/s13280-020-01483-w. Epub 2021 Mar 13.
This paper reflects on the legacy of the Ambio papers by Sombroek et al. (1993), Turner et al. (1994), and Brussaard et al. (1997) on the study of agricultural land use and its impacts on global carbon storage and nutrient dynamics. The papers were published at a time of transition in ecology that involved the integration of humans as components of ecosystems, the formulation of the ecosystem services, and emergence of sustainability science. The papers offered new frameworks to studying agricultural land use across multiple scales in a way that captured causality from interacting components of the system. Each paper argued for more comprehensive data sets; foreseeing the power of network-based science, the potential of molecular technologies to assess biodiversity, and advances in remote sensing. The papers have contributed both conceptual framings and methodological approaches to an ongoing movement to identify a pathway to study agricultural land use and environmental change that fit within the concepts of ecosystem services, planetary boundaries and sustainable development goals.
本文反思了 Sombroek 等人（1993 年）、Turner 等人（1994 年）和 Brussaard 等人（1997 年）在研究农业土地利用及其对全球碳储存和养分动态影响方面的 Ambio 论文的遗产。这些论文发表在生态学转型时期，涉及将人类作为生态系统的组成部分进行整合、制定生态系统服务以及可持续性科学的出现。这些论文提供了新的框架，以便在多个尺度上研究农业土地利用，从而从系统的相互作用组成部分中捕捉因果关系。每篇论文都主张使用更全面的数据集；预见了网络科学的力量、分子技术评估生物多样性的潜力以及遥感技术的进步。这些论文为正在进行的努力做出了概念框架和方法学方法的贡献，以确定一条研究农业土地利用和环境变化的途径，该途径符合生态系统服务、行星边界和可持续发展目标的概念。
