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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | eaax0121 |
| Journal | Science Advances |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Oct 2019 |
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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.
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AU - Kremen, Claire
AU - Landis, Douglas A.
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AU - Smith, Henrik G.
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AU - Keasar, Tamar
AU - Kim, Tania N.
AU - Kishinevsky, Miriam
AU - Klatt, Björn K.
AU - Klein, Alexandra Maria
AU - Krewenka, Kristin M.
AU - Krishnan, Smitha
AU - Larsen, Ashley E.
AU - Lavigne, Claire
AU - Liere, Heidi
AU - Maas, Bea
AU - Mallinger, Rachel E.
AU - Pachon, Eliana Martinez
AU - Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra
AU - Meehan, Timothy D.
AU - Mitchell, Matthew G.E.
AU - Molina, Gonzalo A.R.
AU - Nesper, Maike
AU - Nilsson, Lovisa
AU - O'Rourke, Megan E.
AU - Peters, Marcell K.
AU - Plećaš, Milan
AU - Potts, Simon G.
AU - Ramos, Davi de L.
AU - Rosenheim, Jay A.
AU - Rundlöf, Maj
AU - Rusch, Adrien
AU - Sáez, Agustín
AU - Scheper, Jeroen
AU - Schleuning, Matthias
AU - Schmack, Julia M.
AU - Sciligo, Amber R.
AU - Seymour, Colleen
AU - Stanley, Dara A.
AU - Stewart, Rebecca
AU - Stout, Jane C.
AU - Sutter, Louis
AU - Takada, Mayura B.
AU - Taki, Hisatomo
AU - Tamburini, Giovanni
AU - Tschumi, Matthias
AU - Viana, Blandina F.
AU - Westphal, Catrin
AU - Willcox, Bryony K.
AU - Wratten, Stephen D.
AU - Yoshioka, Akira
AU - Zaragoza-Trello, Carlos
AU - Zhang, Wei
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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).
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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85073876549
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
M3 - Article
C2 - 31663019
AN - SCOPUS:85073876549
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 5
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
IS - 10
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