bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.26.116285; this version posted May 26, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Assessment of the relationships between agroecosystem 2 condition and soil erosion regulating ecosystem service in 3 Northern Germany 4 5 6 Paula Rendon a*, Bastian Steinhoff-Knopp a, Philipp Saggau b, Benjamin Burkhard a, c 7 8 9 10 a Institute of Physical Geography & Landscape Ecology, Leibniz University of Hannover, 11 Hannover, Germany 12 b Institute of Geography, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany 13 c Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg, Germany 14 15 16 *Corresponding author 17 Email:
[email protected] (PR) 18 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.26.116285; this version posted May 26, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 19 Assessment of the relationships between agroecosystem 20 condition and the ecosystem service soil erosion regulation 21 in Northern Germany 22 23 Abstract 24 Ecosystems provide multiple services that are necessary to maintain human life and 25 activities. Agroecosystems are very productive suppliers of biomass-related provisioning 26 ecosystem services, e.g. food, fibre and energy.