A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Content Partner: Lincoln University. 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 glob...

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Hauptverfasser:	Dainese, M, Martin, EA, Aizen, MA, Albrecht, M, Bartomeus, I, Bommarco, R, Carvalheiro, LG, Chaplin-Kramer, R, Gagic, V, Garibaldi, LA, Ghazoul, J, Grab, H, Jonsson, M, Karp, DS, Kennedy, CM, Kleijn, D, Kremen, C, Landis, DA, Letourneau, DK, Marini, L, Poveda, K, Rader, R, Smith, HG, Tscharntke, T, Andersson, GKS, Badenhausser, I, Baensch, S, Bezerra, ADM, Bianchi, FJJA, Boreux, V, Bretagnolle, V, Caballero-Lopez, B, Cavigliasso, P, Ćetković, A, Chacoff, NP, Classen, A, Cusser, S, Da Silva E Silva, FD, Dudenhöffer, JH, Ekroos, J, Fijen, T, Franck, P, Freitas, BM, Garratt, MPD, Gratton, C, Hipólito, J, Holzschuh, A, Hunt, L, Iverson, AL, Jha, S, Keasar, T, Kim, TN, Kishinevsky, M, Klatt, BK, Klein, AM, Krewenka, KM, Krishnan, Smitha, Larsen, AE, Lavigne, C, Liere, H, Maas, B, Mallinger, RE, Pachon, EM, Martínez-Salinas, A, Meehan, TD, Mitchell, MGE, Molina, GAR, Nesper, M, Nilsson, L, O'Rourke, ME, Peters, MK, Plećaš, M, Potts, SG, Ramos, DDL, Rosenheim, JA, Rundlöf, M, Rusch, A, Sáez, A, Scheper, J, Schleuning, M, Schmack, JM, Sciligo, AR, Seymour, Colleen, Stanley, DA, Stewart, R, Stout, JC, Sutter, L, Takada, MB, Taki, H, Tamburini, G, Tschumi, M, Viana, BF, Westphal, C, Willcox, BK, Wratten, SD, Yoshioka, A, Zaragoza-Trello, C, Zhang, Wei, Zou, Yi, Steffan-Dewenter, I
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Zusammenfassung:	Content Partner: Lincoln University. 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.