Ecosystem services providing shelterbelts

Abstract

In Ukraine, the largest user of natural resources is the agricultural complex. About 60% of the country's lands are used for agricultural purposes. During the years of independence, the system of land use in agriculture has completely changed. Emergence of a large number of owners and lessees of farmland increases the range of stakeholders in Agriculture and Natural Resources. New land users, in most cases, have no agronomic knowledge and take land and agro-ecosystems as a source of quick profits. Farmland cannot be considered only as an economic object, place to work and receive products or food. Fields, pastures, fallow and other farmland with surrounding elements and components of the ecosystem are a dynamic complex of vegetation, animals and microorganisms with nonliving environment interacting as a functional unit. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31699