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The traditional agricultural landscape has many ecosystem services as well as a rich biodiversity. This paper analyzes the multiple ecosystem services provided by the Hani Terrace landscape in southwestern China. The results indicate: the Hani Terrace landscape is a traditional sustainable rice agriculture landscape which has multiple ecosystem services and a rich biodiversity that are generated from the close relationships between the landscape elements/ecosystems that are maintained by local farmers. However, although the Hani Terrace landscape has almost maintained its original status, it is facing continuous pressures from social and economic development so adequate adaptive management strategies should be developed to meet the challenges.
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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41271203), by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (E-0902) of Japan’s Ministry of the Environment, by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (ARCP2011-13NMY-Herath) and by the Grant for Candidates of Young and Middle Aged Academic Leaders of Yunnan Province (No. 2009CI066).
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Jiao, Y., Liang, L., Okuro, T., Takeuchi, K. (2014). Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity of Traditional Agricultural Landscapes: A Case Study of the Hani Terraces in Southwest China. In: Hong, SK., Bogaert, J., Min, Q. (eds) Biocultural Landscapes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8941-7_7
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