Table 1.

The main agroecological principles that apply in six case studies ranging from grassland-based systems to large-scale intensive systems

	Case studies in the text
Principle	IAA systems	Dairy cows	Pastoral sheep	Organic rabbits	Pigs	RAS fish
Integrated management of animal health				**	*	**
Reduce inputs needed for production	***	***	**	***	***	**
Reduce pollutions	**	***	*		***	***
Take advantage of system diversity	**	**	***	**	*
Preserve biological diversity		*	**	*
Agroecology	X	X	X	X
Industrial ecology					X	X

IAA = integrated agriculture–aquaculture; RAS = recirculating aquaculture systems.

***Major importance; **Important; *Marginal.