A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production
(2019) In Science Advances 5(10).- 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... (More)
- 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. 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). (Less)
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- Dainese, Matteo ; Smith, Henrik G. LU ; Andersson, Georg K.S. LU ; Ekroos, Johan LU ; Klatt, Björn LU ; Nilsson, Lovisa LU ; Rundlöf, Maj LU ; Stewart, Rebecca LU and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
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- Biodiversity, Crops, Cultivation, Forestry, Land use, Biological pest controls, Dominant species, Ecosystem functions, Ecosystem services, Food production, Global synthesis, Service-providing, Species richness, Ecosystems
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- Science Advances
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- 5
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- 10
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- eaax0121
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- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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- 2375-2548
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- 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
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- English
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