A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Dainese, M., Martin, E. A., Aizen, M. A., Albrecht, M., Bartomeus, I., Bommarco, R., Carvalheiro, L. G., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Gagic, V., Garibaldi, L. A., Ghazoul, J., Grab, H., Jonsson, M., Karp, D. S., Kennedy, C. M., Kleijn, D., Kremen, C., Landis, D. A., Letourneau, D. K., Marini, L., Poveda, K., Rader, R., Smith, H. G., Tscharntke, T., Andersson, G. K. S., Badenhausser, I., Baensch, S., Bezerra, A. D. M., Bianchi, F. J. J. A., Boreux, V., Bretagnolle, V., Caballero-Lopez, B., Cavigliasso, P., Ćetković, A., Chacoff, N. P., Classen, A., Cusser, S., da Silva E Silva, F. D., de Groot, G. A., Dudenhöffer, J. H., Ekroos, J., Fijen, T., Franck, P., Freitas, B. M., Garratt, M. P. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0196-6013, Gratton, C., Hipólito, J., Holzschuh, A., Hunt, L., Iverson, A. L., Jha, S., Keasar, T., Kim, T. N., Kishinevsky, M., Klatt, B. K., Klein, A.-M., Krewenka, K. M., Krishnan, S., Larsen, A. E., Lavigne, C., Liere, H., Maas, B., Mallinger, R. E., Martinez Pachon, E., Martínez-Salinas, A., Meehan, T. D., Mitchell, M. G. E., Molina, G. A. R., Nesper, M., Nilsson, L., O'Rourke, M. E., Peters, M. K., Plećaš, M., Potts, S. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2045-980X, Ramos, D. d. L., Rosenheim, J. A., Rundlöf, M., Rusch, A., Sáez, A., Scheper, J., Schleuning, M., Schmack, J. M., Sciligo, A. R., Seymour, C., Stanley, D. A., Stewart, R., Stout, J. C., Sutter, L., Takada, M. B., Taki, H., Tamburini, G., Tschumi, M., Viana, B. F., Westphal, C., Willcox, B. K., Wratten, S. D., Yoshioka, A., Zaragoza-Trello, C., Zhang, W., Zou, Y. and Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2019) A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. Science advances, 5 (10). eaax0121. ISSN 2375-2548 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121

Abstract/Summary

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), we partition the relative importance of species richness, abundance, and dominance for pollination; biological pest control; and final yields in the context of ongoing land-use change. Pollinator and enemy richness directly supported ecosystem services in addition to and independent of abundance and dominance. Up to 50% of the negative effects of landscape simplification on ecosystem services was due to richness losses of service-providing organisms, with negative consequences for crop yields. Maintaining the biodiversity of ecosystem service providers is therefore vital to sustain the flow of key agroecosystem benefits to society. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2019 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).]

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/87258
Identification Number/DOI	10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Sustainable Land Management > Centre for Agri-environmental Research (CAER)
Publisher	American Association for the Advancement of Science
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