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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | eaax0121 |
| Journal | Science advances |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Oct 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
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.
Keywords
- Agriculture/methods, Biodiversity, Crop Production/methods, Crops, Agricultural/metabolism, Ecosystem, Humans, Pest Control, Biological/methods, Pollination/physiology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Science advances, Vol. 5, No. 10, eaax0121, 16.10.2019.
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T1 - A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production
AU - Dainese, Matteo
AU - Martin, Emily A.
AU - Aizen, Marcelo A.
AU - Albrecht, Matthias
AU - Bartomeus, Ignasi
AU - Bommarco, Riccardo
AU - Carvalheiro, Luisa G.
AU - Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
AU - Gagic, Vesna
AU - Garibaldi, Lucas A.
AU - Ghazoul, Jaboury
AU - Grab, Heather
AU - Jonsson, Mattias
AU - Karp, Daniel S.
AU - Kennedy, Christina M.
AU - Kleijn, David
AU - Kremen, Claire
AU - Landis, Douglas A.
AU - Letourneau, Deborah K.
AU - Marini, Lorenzo
AU - Poveda, Katja
AU - Rader, Romina
AU - Smith, Henrik G.
AU - Tscharntke, Teja
AU - Andersson, Georg K. S.
AU - Badenhausser, Isabelle
AU - Baensch, Svenja
AU - Bezerra, Antonio Diego M.
AU - Bianchi, Felix J. J. A.
AU - Boreux, Virginie
AU - Bretagnolle, Vincent
AU - Caballero-Lopez, Berta
AU - Cavigliasso, Pablo
AU - Ćetković, Aleksandar
AU - Chacoff, Natacha P.
AU - Classen, Alice
AU - Cusser, Sarah
AU - Silva, Felipe D. da Silva e
AU - Groot, G. Arjen de
AU - Dudenhöffer, Jan H.
AU - Ekroos, Johan
AU - Fijen, Thijs
AU - Franck, Pierre
AU - Freitas, Breno M.
AU - Garratt, Michael P. D.
AU - Gratton, Claudio
AU - Hipólito, Juliana
AU - Holzschuh, Andrea
AU - Hunt, Lauren
AU - Iverson, Aaron L.
N1 - Publisher 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). Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/10/16
Y1 - 2019/10/16
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Agriculture/methods
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Crop Production/methods
KW - Crops, Agricultural/metabolism
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Humans
KW - Pest Control, Biological/methods
KW - Pollination/physiology
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U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
M3 - Article
C2 - 31663019
VL - 5
JO - Science advances
JF - Science advances
SN - 2375-2548
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