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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Dainese, Matteo ; Smith, Henrik G. LU ; Andersson, Georg K.S. LU orcid ; Ekroos, Johan LU ; Klatt, Björn LU orcid ; Nilsson, Lovisa LU orcid ; Rundlöf, Maj LU orcid ; Stewart, Rebecca LU and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf (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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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
article number
eaax0121
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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  • scopus:85073876549
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2375-2548
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10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
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English
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  author       = {{Dainese, Matteo and Smith, Henrik G. and Andersson, Georg K.S. and Ekroos, Johan and Klatt, Björn and Nilsson, Lovisa and Rundlöf, Maj and Stewart, Rebecca and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf}},
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  keywords     = {{Biodiversity; Crops; Cultivation; Forestry; Land use; Biological pest controls; Dominant species; Ecosystem functions; Ecosystem services; Food production; Global synthesis; Service-providing; Species richness; Ecosystems}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{10}},
  publisher    = {{American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}},
  series       = {{Science Advances}},
  title        = {{A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax0121}},
  doi          = {{10.1126/sciadv.aax0121}},
  volume       = {{5}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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