Batáry, Péter and Gallé, Róbert and Korányi, Dávid and Lakatos, Tamás and Deák, Balázs and Gallé-Szpisjak, Nikolett and Kabai, Melinda and Koszta, Csaba and Kotowska, Dorota and Marja, Riho and Palotás, Brigitta and Szabó, Borbála and Torma, Attila and Báldi, András and Hornung, Erzsébet and László, Zoltán and Molnár, Zsolt and Purger, Jenő and Seress, Gábor and Urák, István and Purger, Dragica and Sándor, Krisztina and Somay, László and Süle, Gabriella and Valkó, Orsolya and Zsigmond, Andreea Rebeka and Fischer, Christina and Marini, Lorenzo and Tscharntke, Teja and Szitár, Katalin and Török, Edina (2025) Biodiversity and human well-being trade-offs and synergies in villages. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY, 8. pp. 894-904. ISSN 2398-9629
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Abstract
Europe’s rural landscapes, shaped over millennia, support high biodiversity but often have lower living standards than urban areas, potentially leading to social and environmental injustice. Here we studied biodiversity and socioeconomic settings in Central and Eastern European villages across landscape complexity and urbanization gradients. We surveyed the biodiversity of villages by sampling nine taxonomic groups, including plants, arthropods and birds. We found 15% lower multitrophic diversity in villages in agricultural than in forest-dominated landscapes. City vicinity enhanced human well-being (estimated with Better Life Index) but did not affect biodiversity despite a larger human footprint. In agglomerated villages in forest-dominated landscapes, biodiversity was high, with higher Better Life Index and footprint metrics, suggesting associations between biodiversity, socioeconomic status and, thus, environmental injustice. Our results show the high socioecological value of maintaining or restoring landscape complexity around villages and their green infrastructure, requiring top-down incentives and bottom-up initiatives.
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| Additional Information: | Lendület Landscape and Conservation Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary Faunistics and Wildlife Conservation, Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology, and Landscape Development, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany Doctoral School of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Lendület Seed Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland General and Theoretical Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary Lendület Ecosystem Services, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary Department of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary Department of Ecology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary HUN-REN-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Veszprém, Hungary Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary Department of Life Sciences, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary Balaton Uplands National Park Directorate, Csopak, Hungary Department of Environmental Science, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Padua, Italy Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Export Date: 15 July 2025; Correspondence Address: P. Batáry; Lendület Landscape and Conservation Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary; email: batary.peter@ecolres.hu |
| Subjects: | Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH540 Ecology / ökológia |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2025 12:46 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2025 12:46 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/225137 |
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