How do the different biogeographical zones effect the agricultural practices?
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Biodiversity within a given ecosystem will be affected by a number of biogeographic factors: Larger habitats tend to promote biodiversity better than smaller habitats (more available niches = less competition) Ecology at the edges of ecosystems is different from central areas (e.g. more sunlight, more wind, etc.)
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The challenge of increasing food production to keep pace with demand, while retaining the essential ecological integrity of production systems, requires coordinated action among science disciplines. Thus, 21stcentury Agriculture should incorporate disciplines related to natural resources, environmental science, and
life sciences. Biogeography, as one of those disciplines, provides a unique contribution because it can generate
research ideas and methods that can be used to ameliorate this challenge, with the concept of relative space
providing the conceptual and analytical framework within which data can be integrated, related, and structured into a whole. A new branch of Biogeography, Agriculture Biogeography, is proposed here and defined
as the application of the principles, theories, and analyses of Biogeography to agricultural systems, including all
human activities related to breeding or cultivation, mostly to provide goods and services. It not only
encompasses the problem that land use seems scarcely to be compatible with biodiversity conservation, but
also a substantial body of theory and analysis involving subjects not strictly related to conservation. Our aim is
to define the field and scope of Agriculture Biogeography, set the foundations of a conceptual framework of
the discipline, and present some subjects related to Agriculture Biogeography. We present, in summary form,
a concept map which summarizes the relationship between agriculture systems and Biogeography, and
delineates the current engagement between Agriculture and Biogeography through the discussion of some
perspectives from Biogeography and from the agriculture research.
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