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Mei Z, Scheper J, Kleijn D. Arthropod predator identity and evenness jointly shape the delivery of pest control services. Pest Manag Sci 2024; 80:569-576. [PMID: 37732942 DOI: 10.1002/ps.7779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Maximizing the effectiveness of natural pest control requires a detailed understanding of how service delivery is affected by natural enemy community diversity and composition. Many studies have investigated the effects of natural enemy abundance and species richness on pest control. Studies examining the effects of evenness and species identity are fewer and have produced inconsistent results. Here we test the effects of arthropod predator community evenness and species identity on natural pest control by exposing aphid (Sitobion avenae) colonies in experimental cages to arthropod predator communities that had the same abundance and species richness but differed in evenness and dominant species. RESULTS We found that the identity of the most dominant species in the arthropod predator community predominantly drove the pest control efficiency. However, additional to the effects of species identity, we also found a causal positive relationship between the evenness of arthropod predator communities and the suppression of pest growth. CONCLUSION Our results provide support for the hypothesis that ecosystem service provision is generally a function of the abundance and efficiency of the most dominant species of the service-providing groups. This could partly explain why management practices aiming at promoting abundance of natural enemies often have mixed effects on pest control. Our results also demonstrate that diversity components such as evenness have important additional effects. However, in real-world ecosystems these effects may be obscured because evenness is generally confounded with abundance or species richness in natural enemy predator communities. © 2023 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Zulin Mei
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Scheper J, Badenhausser I, Kantelhardt J, Kirchweger S, Bartomeus I, Bretagnolle V, Clough Y, Gross N, Raemakers I, Vilà M, Zaragoza-Trello C, Kleijn D. Biodiversity and pollination benefits trade off against profit in an intensive farming system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2212124120. [PMID: 37399410 PMCID: PMC10334771 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212124120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Agricultural expansion and intensification have boosted global food production but have come at the cost of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Biodiversity-friendly farming that boosts ecosystem services, such as pollination and natural pest control, is widely being advocated to maintain and improve agricultural productivity while safeguarding biodiversity. A vast body of evidence showing the agronomic benefits of enhanced ecosystem service delivery represent important incentives to adopt practices enhancing biodiversity. However, the costs of biodiversity-friendly management are rarely taken into account and may represent a major barrier impeding uptake by farmers. Whether and how biodiversity conservation, ecosystem service delivery, and farm profit can go hand in hand is unknown. Here, we quantify the ecological, agronomic, and net economic benefits of biodiversity-friendly farming in an intensive grassland-sunflower system in Southwest France. We found that reducing land-use intensity on agricultural grasslands drastically enhances flower availability and wild bee diversity, including rare species. Biodiversity-friendly management on grasslands furthermore resulted in an up to 17% higher revenue on neighboring sunflower fields through positive effects on pollination service delivery. However, the opportunity costs of reduced grassland forage yields consistently exceeded the economic benefits of enhanced sunflower pollination. Our results highlight that profitability is often a key constraint hampering adoption of biodiversity-based farming and uptake critically depends on society's willingness to pay for associated delivery of public goods such as biodiversity.
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- Jeroen Scheper
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AAWageningen, The Netherlands
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- Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies Plantes Fourragères, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, F-86600Lusignan, France
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- Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, 1180Vienna, Austria
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- Studienzentrum für Internationale Analysen–Schlierbach, Studienzentrum für Internationale Analysen, 4553Schlierbach, Austria
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, E-41092Sevilla, Spain
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- Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR7372, Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Université de La Rochelle, F-79360Villiers-en-Bois, France
- Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research platform « Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre », 79360Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University, 22362Lund, Sweden
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche 212 Ecosystème Prairial, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Independent amateur entomologist, 6247CGGronsveld, The Netherlands
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, E-41092Sevilla, Spain
- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Facultad de Biología, University of Sevilla, 41012Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, E-41092Sevilla, Spain
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AAWageningen, The Netherlands
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Allen-Perkins A, Magrach A, Dainese M, Garibaldi LA, Kleijn D, Rader R, Reilly JR, Winfree R, Lundin O, McGrady CM, Brittain C, Biddinger DJ, Artz DR, Elle E, Hoffman G, Ellis JD, Daniels J, Gibbs J, Campbell JW, Brokaw J, Wilson JK, Mason K, Ward KL, Gundersen KB, Bobiwash K, Gut L, Rowe LM, Boyle NK, Williams NM, Joshi NK, Rothwell N, Gillespie RL, Isaacs R, Fleischer SJ, Peterson SS, Rao S, Pitts-Singer TL, Fijen T, Boreux V, Rundlöf M, Viana BF, Klein AM, Smith HG, Bommarco R, Carvalheiro LG, Ricketts TH, Ghazoul J, Krishnan S, Benjamin FE, Loureiro J, Castro S, Raine NE, de Groot GA, Horgan FG, Hipólito J, Smagghe G, Meeus I, Eeraerts M, Potts SG, Kremen C, García D, Miñarro M, Crowder DW, Pisanty G, Mandelik Y, Vereecken NJ, Leclercq N, Weekers T, Lindstrom SAM, Stanley DA, Zaragoza-Trello C, Nicholson CC, Scheper J, Rad C, Marks EAN, Mota L, Danforth B, Park M, Bezerra ADM, Freitas BM, Mallinger RE, da Silva FO, Willcox B, Ramos DL, da Silva E Silva FD, Lázaro A, Alomar D, González-Estévez MA, Taki H, Cariveau DP, Garratt MPD, Nabaes Jodar DN, Stewart RIA, Ariza D, Pisman M, Lichtenberg EM, Schüepp C, Herzog F, Entling MH, Dupont YL, Michener CD, Daily GC, Ehrlich PR, Burns KLW, Vilà M, Robson A, Howlett B, Blechschmidt L, Jauker F, Schwarzbach F, Nesper M, Diekötter T, Wolters V, Castro H, Gaspar H, Nault BA, Badenhausser I, Petersen JD, Tscharntke T, Bretagnolle V, Chan DSW, Chacoff N, Andersson GKS, Jha S, Colville JF, Veldtman R, Coutinho J, Bianchi FJJA, Sutter L, Albrecht M, Jeanneret P, Zou Y, Averill AL, Saez A, Sciligo AR, Vergara CH, Bloom EH, Oeller E, Badano EI, Loeb GM, Grab H, Ekroos J, Gagic V, Cunningham SA, Åström J, Cavigliasso P, Trillo A, Classen A, Mauchline AL, Montero-Castaño A, Wilby A, Woodcock BA, Sidhu CS, Steffan-Dewenter I, Vogiatzakis IN, Herrera JM, Otieno M, Gikungu MW, Cusser SJ, Nauss T, Nilsson L, Knapp J, Ortega-Marcos JJ, González JA, Osborne JL, Blanche R, Shaw RF, Hevia V, Stout J, Arthur AD, Blochtein B, Szentgyorgyi H, Li J, Mayfield MM, Woyciechowski M, Nunes-Silva P, de Oliveira RH, Henry S, Simmons BI, Dalsgaard B, Hansen K, Sritongchuay T, O'Reilly AD, García FJC, Parra GN, Pigozo CM, Bartomeus I. CropPol: a dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination. Ecology 2021; 103:e3614. [PMID: 34921678 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact this critical ecosystem service. Because standardized data on crop pollination are rarely available, we are limited in our capacity to understand the variation in pollination benefits to crop yield, as well as to anticipate changes in this service, develop predictions, and inform management actions. Here, we present CropPol, a dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination. It contains measurements recorded from 202 crop studies, covering 3,394 field observations, 2,552 yield measurements (i.e. berry weight, number of fruits and kg per hectare, among others), and 47,752 insect records from 48 commercial crops distributed around the globe. CropPol comprises 32 of the 87 leading global crops and commodities that are pollinator dependent. Malus domestica is the most represented crop (32 studies), followed by Brassica napus (22 studies), Vaccinium corymbosum (13 studies), and Citrullus lanatus (12 studies). The most abundant pollinator guilds recorded are honey bees (34.22% counts), bumblebees (19.19%), flies other than Syrphidae and Bombyliidae (13.18%), other wild bees (13.13%), beetles (10.97%), Syrphidae (4.87%), and Bombyliidae (0.05%). Locations comprise 34 countries distributed among Europe (76 studies), Northern America (60), Latin America and the Caribbean (29), Asia (20), Oceania (10), and Africa (7). Sampling spans three decades and is concentrated on 2001-05 (21 studies), 2006-10 (40), 2011-15 (88), and 2016-20 (50). This is the most comprehensive open global data set on measurements of crop flower visitors, crop pollinators and pollination to date, and we encourage researchers to add more datasets to this database in the future. This data set is released for non-commercial use only. Credits should be given to this paper (i.e., proper citation), and the products generated with this database should be shared under the same license terms (CC BY-NC-SA). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alfonso Allen-Perkins
- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain.,Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica, Automática y Física Aplicada, ETSIDI, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Basque Centre for Climate Change-BC3, Edif. Sede 1, 1°, Parque Científico UPV-EHU, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940, Leioa, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, María Díaz de Haro 3, 48013, Bilbao, Spain
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural, Río Negro, Argentina.,Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- School of Environment and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University Fruit Research and Extension Center, Biglerville, PA, USA
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- USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Logan, UT, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,USDA Agricultural Research Service, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, Sidney, MT, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
| | - Kimiora L Ward
- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.,National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Logan, UT, USA.,Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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- Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center, Michigan State University, Traverse City, MI, USA
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- Agriculture and Natural Resource Program, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- ETH Zürich - Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystems - Ecosystem Management - Universitaetstrasse 16, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.,University of Freiburg - Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology - Tennenbacher Str. 4, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Biology Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,National Institute of Science and Technology in Inter and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution - INCT IN-TREE, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- University of Freiburg - Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology - Tennenbacher Str. 4, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.,Ecology Department, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Brasil
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- Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.,Rubenstein School for Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, Zurich, Switzerland.,Bioversity International, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
| | - João Loureiro
- FLOWer Lab, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal
| | - Sílvia Castro
- FLOWer Lab, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- EcoLaverna Integral Restoration Ecology, Kildinan, Co. Cork, Ireland.,Universidad Católica del Maule, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Escuela de Agronomía, Casilla 7-D, Curicó, Chile
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- Coordination of Research in Biodiversity - COBIO, 2936 André Araújo Ave, Petrópolis, National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Plant and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Ivan Meeus
- Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Plant and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Maxime Eeraerts
- Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Plant and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links, Ghent, Belgium
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 137 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Universidad de Oviedo y Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Biodiversidad (CSIC-Uo-, PA, Spain
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- Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Spain
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- Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Boulevard du Triomphe CP 264/02, Brussels, Belgium
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- Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Boulevard du Triomphe CP 264/02, Brussels, Belgium
| | - Timothy Weekers
- Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Boulevard du Triomphe CP 264/02, Brussels, Belgium
| | - Sandra A M Lindstrom
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.,Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Swedish Rural Economy and Agricultural Society, SE-291 09, Kristianstad, Sweden
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
| | - Carlos Rad
- Composting Research Group UBUCOMP, Universidad de Burgos, Faculty of Sciences, Pl. Misael Bañuelos s/n, 09001, Burgos, Spain
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- BETA Technological Center, University of Vic-University of Central Catalonia, Carrer de la Laura 13, Vic, Catalonia, Spain
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- FLOWer Lab, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Zootecnia, Campus Universitário do Pici, Bloco 808, Caixa Postal 12168, CEP 60356-000, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Zootecnia, Campus Universitário do Pici, Bloco 808, Caixa Postal 12168, CEP 60356-000, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Inter and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution - INCT IN-TREE, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.,Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)
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- School of Environment and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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- Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (UIB-CSIC). Global Change Research Group. C/ Miquel Marquès 21, 09190, Esporles, Balearic Islands, Spain
| | | | - Miguel A González-Estévez
- Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (UIB-CSIC). Global Change Research Group. C/ Miquel Marquès 21, 09190, Esporles, Balearic Islands, Spain
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - Daniel P Cariveau
- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
| | - Michael P D Garratt
- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
| | - Diego N Nabaes Jodar
- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural, Río Negro, Argentina
| | - Rebecca I A Stewart
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
| | - Daniel Ariza
- Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Plant and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Matti Pisman
- Laboratory of Agrozoology, Department of Plant and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Elinor M Lichtenberg
- Department of Entomology, Washington State University.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
| | - Christof Schüepp
- iES Landau Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-, Landau, Germany
| | - Felix Herzog
- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Martin H Entling
- iES Landau Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-, Landau, Germany
| | - Yoko L Dupont
- Dept. of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 8410 Roende, Denmark
| | - Charles D Michener
- Entomology Division, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.,Deceased
| | - Gretchen C Daily
- Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Paul R Ehrlich
- Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Katherine L W Burns
- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
| | - Montserrat Vilà
- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain.,Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
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- Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre (AARSC), University of New England, Armidale, Australia
| | - Brad Howlett
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
| | - Helena Castro
- FLOWer Lab, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal
| | - Hugo Gaspar
- FLOWer Lab, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal
| | | | - Isabelle Badenhausser
- INRAE, Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies Plantes Fourragères, Lusignan, France.,UMR 7372, Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Université de la Rochelle & CNRS, Villiers en Bois, France
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
| | | | - Georg K S Andersson
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - Jonathan F Colville
- The Centre for Statistics in Ecology, the Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University and Research, AK, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Plant-Production Systems, Agroscope, Route des Eterpys 18, CH-1964, Conthey, Switzerland
| | - Matthias Albrecht
- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Philippe Jeanneret
- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA, USA
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- INIBIOMA (CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue) Bariloche - Rio Negro, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 137 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Carlos H Vergara
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Cholula, Pue., Mexico
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- Department of Entomology, Washington State University
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- División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C., Mexico
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell Agritech, Cornell University
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.,Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ecosciences Precinct, QLD, 4001, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Concordia. Programa Nacional Apicultura (PNAPI), Argentina
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK
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- San Mateo Resource Conservation District, California, UK
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- Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Department of Agricultural Resource Management, University of Embu, Kenya
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- Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Environmental Informatics, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural, Río Negro, Argentina.,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciência, Pontifícia Univ Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
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- The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciência, Pontifícia Univ Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciência, Pontifícia Univ Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, UK
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, China
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas (LABUN), Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá.,Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará. Fortaleza-, CE, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas (LABUN), Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain
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Scheper J, Bruner S, Flume P, McCoy L, Gray S, Bullington W. 241: The impact of implementing specialty pharmacy services within a cystic fibrosis clinic. J Cyst Fibros 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-1993(21)01666-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Scheper J, Bukovinszky T, Huigens ME, Kleijn D. Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success. Basic Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2021.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Li P, Kleijn D, Badenhausser I, Zaragoza‐Trello C, Gross N, Raemakers I, Scheper J. The relative importance of green infrastructure as refuge habitat for pollinators increases with local land‐use intensity. J Appl Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Pengyao Li
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences China Agricultural University Beijing China
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé Université de La Rochelle Villiers en Bois France
- LTSER "ZA Plaine & Val de Sèvre" CNRS Villiers en Bois France
- Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies Plantes Fourragères INRA Lusignan France
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- Unité de Recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial INRA Université Clermont Auvergne Clermont‐Ferrand France
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- Independent Amateur Entomologist Maarheeze The Netherlands
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
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Cole LJ, Kleijn D, Dicks LV, Stout JC, Potts SG, Albrecht M, Balzan MV, Bartomeus I, Bebeli PJ, Bevk D, Biesmeijer JC, Chlebo R, Dautartė A, Emmanouil N, Hartfield C, Holland JM, Holzschuh A, Knoben NTJ, Kovács‐Hostyánszki A, Mandelik Y, Panou H, Paxton RJ, Petanidou T, Pinheiro de Carvalho MAA, Rundlöf M, Sarthou J, Stavrinides MC, Suso MJ, Szentgyörgyi H, Vaissière BE, Varnava A, Vilà M, Zemeckis R, Scheper J. A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland. J Appl Ecol 2020; 57:681-694. [PMID: 32362684 PMCID: PMC7188321 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Agricultural intensification and associated loss of high-quality habitats are key drivers of insect pollinator declines. With the aim of decreasing the environmental impact of agriculture, the 2014 EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) defined a set of habitat and landscape features (Ecological Focus Areas: EFAs) farmers could select from as a requirement to receive basic farm payments. To inform the post-2020 CAP, we performed a European-scale evaluation to determine how different EFA options vary in their potential to support insect pollinators under standard and pollinator-friendly management, as well as the extent of farmer uptake.A structured Delphi elicitation process engaged 22 experts from 18 European countries to evaluate EFAs options. By considering life cycle requirements of key pollinating taxa (i.e. bumble bees, solitary bees and hoverflies), each option was evaluated for its potential to provide forage, bee nesting sites and hoverfly larval resources.EFA options varied substantially in the resources they were perceived to provide and their effectiveness varied geographically and temporally. For example, field margins provide relatively good forage throughout the season in Southern and Eastern Europe but lacked early-season forage in Northern and Western Europe. Under standard management, no single EFA option achieved high scores across resource categories and a scarcity of late season forage was perceived.Experts identified substantial opportunities to improve habitat quality by adopting pollinator-friendly management. Improving management alone was, however, unlikely to ensure that all pollinator resource requirements were met. Our analyses suggest that a combination of poor management, differences in the inherent pollinator habitat quality and uptake bias towards catch crops and nitrogen-fixing crops severely limit the potential of EFAs to support pollinators in European agricultural landscapes. Policy Implications. To conserve pollinators and help protect pollination services, our expert elicitation highlights the need to create a variety of interconnected, well-managed habitats that complement each other in the resources they offer. To achieve this the Common Agricultural Policy post-2020 should take a holistic view to implementation that integrates the different delivery vehicles aimed at protecting biodiversity (e.g. enhanced conditionality, eco-schemes and agri-environment and climate measures). To improve habitat quality we recommend an effective monitoring framework with target-orientated indicators and to facilitate the spatial targeting of options collaboration between land managers should be incentivised.
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- Lorna J. Cole
- Integrated Land ManagementScotland’s Rural CollegeAyrUK
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- University of East AngliaNorwichUK
- Department of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Centre for Agri‐Environmental ResearchSchool of Agriculture, Policy and DevelopmentReading UniversityReadingUK
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- Institute of Applied SciencesMalta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST)PaolaMalta
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- National Institute of BiologyLjubljanaSlovenia
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
- Institute for Environmental Sciences (CML)Universiteit LeidenLeidenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Poultry Science and Small Farm AnimalsSlovak University of AgricultureNitraSlovakia
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- Department of Crop ScienceLaboratory of Agricultural Zoology & EntomologyAgricultural University of AthensAthensGreece
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- Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, BiocenterUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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- Lendület Ecosystem Services Research GroupInstitute of Ecology and BotanyMTA Centre for Ecological ResearchVácrátótHungary
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- Department of EntomologyThe Hebrew University of JerusalemRehovotIsrael
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- Department of Crop ScienceLaboratory of Agricultural Zoology & EntomologyAgricultural University of AthensAthensGreece
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- General ZoologyInstitute for BiologyMartin Luther University Halle‐WittenbergHalle (SaaleGermany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigGermany
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- Laboratory of Biogeography & EcologyDepartment of GeographyUniversity of the AegeanMytileneGreece
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- Department of BiologyLund UniversityLundSweden
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food ScienceCyprus University of TechnologyLimassolCyprus
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS‐CSIC)CórdobaSpain
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food ScienceCyprus University of TechnologyLimassolCyprus
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
- Animal Ecology TeamWageningen Environmental ResearchWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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Breeze TD, Boreux V, Cole L, Dicks L, Klein A, Pufal G, Balzan MV, Bevk D, Bortolotti L, Petanidou T, Mand M, Pinto MA, Scheper J, Stanisavljević L, Stavrinides MC, Tscheulin T, Varnava A, Kleijn D. Linking farmer and beekeeper preferences with ecological knowledge to improve crop pollination. People and Nature 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Tom D. Breeze
- Centre for Agri‐Environmental Research School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading Reading UK
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- Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany
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- Integrated Land Management Scotland’s Rural College Ayr UK
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- Biological Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich UK
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- Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany
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- Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany
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- Institute of Applied Sciences Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology Paola Malta
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- National Institute of Biology Ljubljana Slovenia
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- CREA‐AACouncil for Agricultural research and EconomicsResearch Centre for Agriculture and Environment Bologna Italy
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- Biogeography & Ecology Lab Department of Geography University of the Aegean Mytilene Greece
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- Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Estonian University of Life Sciences Tartu Estonia
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- Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Braganca Portugal
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
- Animal Ecology Team Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra) Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science Cyprus University of Technology Limassol Cyprus
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- Biogeography & Ecology Lab Department of Geography University of the Aegean Mytilene Greece
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science Cyprus University of Technology Limassol Cyprus
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
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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, de Groot GA, 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 S, Larsen AE, Lavigne C, Liere H, Maas B, Mallinger RE, Martinez Pachon E, 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 C, 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 W, Zou Y, Steffan-Dewenter I. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaax0121. [PMID: 31663019 PMCID: PMC6795509 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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.
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- Matteo Dainese
- Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Grupo de Ecología de la Polinización, INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, 8400 Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Integrative Ecology, E-41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goias (UFG), Goiânia, Brazil
- Faculdade de Ciencias, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- CSIRO, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural (IRNAD), Sede Andina, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN) y CONICET, Mitre 630, CP 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Global Lands Program, The Nature Conservancy, 117 E. Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80524, USA
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Wageningen 6708 PB, Netherlands
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- IRES and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Entomology and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, 204 CIPS, 578 Wilson Ave, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- DAFNAE, University of Padova, viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- School of Environment and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Biology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- USC1339 INRA-CNRS, CEBC UMR 7372, CNRS and Université de La Rochelle, Beauvoir sur Niort 79360, France
- INRA, Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies et Plantes Fourragères (URP3F), Lusignan 86600, France
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Functional Agrobiodiversity, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany
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- Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Straße 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- LTSER Zone Atelier Plaine and Val de Sevre, CEBC UMR 7372, CNRS and Université de La Rochelle, Beauvoir sur Niort 79360, France
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Concordia, Estacion Yuqueri y vias del Ferrocarril s/n, 3200 Entre Rios, Argentina
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, CONICET, 4107 Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA
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- Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Mato Grosso, Campus of Barra do Garças/MT, 78600-000, Brazil
- Center of Sustainable Development, University of Brasília (UnB)—Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Brasília-DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME44TB, UK
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Wageningen 6708 PB, Netherlands
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- INRA, UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles, 84000 Avignon, France
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- Departamento de Zootecnia–CCA, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60.356-000 Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural (IRNAD), Sede Andina, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN) y CONICET, Mitre 630, CP 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), CEP 69.067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Human-Environment Systems, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 205 W 24th Street, 401 Biological Laboratories, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Biology and Environment, University of Haifa, Oranim, Tivon 36006, Israel
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- Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 125 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66503, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, 3498838 Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
- Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Straße 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Bioversity International, Bangalore 560 065, India
- Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India
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- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, USA
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- INRA, UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles, 84000 Avignon, France
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- Department of Environmental Studies, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 9812, USA
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, 1881 Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA
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- Agriculture, Livestock and Agroforestry Program, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Cartago, Turrialba 30501, Costa Rica
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- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Cátedra de Avicultura, Cunicultura y Apicultura, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA C1417DSE, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Ecology, UnB—Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília-DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- INRA, UMR 1065 Santé et Agroécologie du Vignoble, ISVV, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, F-33883 Villenave d’Ornon Cedex, France
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- INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, Quintral 1250, 8400 Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Wageningen 6708 PB, Netherlands
- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 188-0002 Tokyo, Japan
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
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- Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Straße 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-210 Salvador, Brazil
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- Functional Agrobiodiversity, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany
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- School of Environment and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Fukushima Branch, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 963-770 Fukushima, Japan
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- Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC 20005, USA
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- Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, 215123, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Martin EA, Dainese M, Clough Y, Báldi A, Bommarco R, Gagic V, Garratt MPD, Holzschuh A, Kleijn D, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Marini L, Potts SG, Smith HG, Al Hassan D, Albrecht M, Andersson GKS, Asís JD, Aviron S, Balzan MV, Baños-Picón L, Bartomeus I, Batáry P, Burel F, Caballero-López B, Concepción ED, Coudrain V, Dänhardt J, Diaz M, Diekötter T, Dormann CF, Duflot R, Entling MH, Farwig N, Fischer C, Frank T, Garibaldi LA, Hermann J, Herzog F, Inclán D, Jacot K, Jauker F, Jeanneret P, Kaiser M, Krauss J, Le Féon V, Marshall J, Moonen AC, Moreno G, Riedinger V, Rundlöf M, Rusch A, Scheper J, Schneider G, Schüepp C, Stutz S, Sutter L, Tamburini G, Thies C, Tormos J, Tscharntke T, Tschumi M, Uzman D, Wagner C, Zubair-Anjum M, Steffan-Dewenter I. The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe. Ecol Lett 2019; 22:1083-1094. [PMID: 30957401 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement of crop fields and other habitats in landscapes impacts arthropods and their functions is poorly known. Synthesising data from 49 studies (1515 landscapes) across Europe, we examined effects of landscape composition (% habitats) and configuration (edge density) on arthropods in fields and their margins, pest control, pollination and yields. Configuration effects interacted with the proportions of crop and non-crop habitats, and species' dietary, dispersal and overwintering traits led to contrasting responses to landscape variables. Overall, however, in landscapes with high edge density, 70% of pollinator and 44% of natural enemy species reached highest abundances and pollination and pest control improved 1.7- and 1.4-fold respectively. Arable-dominated landscapes with high edge densities achieved high yields. This suggests that enhancing edge density in European agroecosystems can promote functional biodiversity and yield-enhancing ecosystem services.
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- Emily A Martin
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, 22362, Lund, Sweden
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute for Ecology and Botany, Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group, Alkotmány u. 2-4, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute for Ecology and Botany, Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group, Alkotmány u. 2-4, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- DAFNAE, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro (Padova), Italy
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, 22362, Lund, Sweden.,Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- UMR 6553 Ecobio, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, 22362, Lund, Sweden
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- Departamento de Biología Animal (Área de Zoología), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Institute of Applied Sciences, Malta, College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST), Paola, Malta.,Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, I-56127, Pisa, Italy
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- Departamento de Biología Animal (Área de Zoología), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), E-41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- MTA ÖK Lendület Landscape and Conservation Ecology Research Group, Alkotmány u. 2-4, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- UMR 6553 Ecobio, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France
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- Department of Arthropods, Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, Castell dels Tres Dragons, Picasso Av, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (BGC-MNCN-CSIC), C/Serrano 115 bis, E-28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE), Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, Univ. Avignon, 13545, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, 22362, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (BGC-MNCN-CSIC), C/Serrano 115 bis, E-28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Landscape Ecology, Kiel University, Olshausenstrasse 75, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Biometry& Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstr. 7, 76829, Landau, Germany
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- Department of Conservation Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 8, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Restoration Ecology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Zoology, Gregor Mendel Straße 33, A-1180, Vienna, Austria
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural (IRNAD), Sede Andina, Universidad, Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Mitre 630, CP 8400, San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Department of Landscape Ecology, Kiel University, Olshausenstrasse 75, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO - Facultad de Ciencias Agícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, 170129, Ecuador
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, Belgrade, 11 000, Serbia
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- INRA, UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement, Site Agroparc, 84914, Avignon, France
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- Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, I-56127, Pisa, Italy
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, 10600, Spain
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- INRA, UMR 1065 SAVE, ISVV, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, F-33883, Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- Animal Ecology Team, Wageningen Environmental Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- CABI, Rue des Grillons 1, 2800, Delémont, Switzerland
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Natural Resources Research Laboratory, Bremer Str. 15, 29308, Winsen, Germany
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- Departamento de Biología Animal (Área de Zoología), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Grisebachstrasse 6, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Crop Protection, Geisenheim University, Von-Lade-Str. 1, 65366, Geisenheim, Germany
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- LfL, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Institut für Ökologischen Landbau, Bodenkultur und Ressourcenschutz, Lange Point 12, 85354, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Zoology & Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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Dainese M, Riedinger V, Holzschuh A, Kleijn D, Scheper J, Steffan-Dewenter I. Managing trap-nesting bees as crop pollinators: Spatiotemporal effects of floral resources and antagonists. J Appl Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matteo Dainese
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Würzburg Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Würzburg Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Würzburg Germany
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- Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra); Animal Ecology Team; Wageningen The Netherlands
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group; Wageningen University; Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra); Animal Ecology Team; Wageningen The Netherlands
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group; Wageningen University; Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Würzburg Germany
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Holzschuh A, Dainese M, González-Varo JP, Mudri-Stojnić S, Riedinger V, Rundlöf M, Scheper J, Wickens JB, Wickens VJ, Bommarco R, Kleijn D, Potts SG, Roberts SPM, Smith HG, Vilà M, Vujić A, Steffan-Dewenter I. Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe. Ecol Lett 2016; 19:1228-36. [PMID: 27531385 PMCID: PMC5031195 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Revised: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Mass-flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi-natural habitats (SNHs). Across six European regions and 2 years, we assessed how landscape-scale cover of MFCs affected pollinator densities in 408 MFC fields and adjacent SNHs. In MFC fields, densities of bumblebees, solitary bees, managed honeybees and hoverflies were negatively related to the cover of MFCs in the landscape. In SNHs, densities of bumblebees declined with increasing cover of MFCs but densities of honeybees increased. The densities of all pollinators were generally unrelated to the cover of SNHs in the landscape. Although MFC fields apparently attracted pollinators from SNHs, in landscapes with large areas of MFCs they became diluted. The resulting lower densities might negatively affect yields of pollinator-dependent crops and the reproductive success of wild plants. An expansion of MFCs needs to be accompanied by pollinator-supporting practices in agricultural landscapes.
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- Andrea Holzschuh
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio s/n, Isla de la Cartuja, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- Alterra, Animal Ecology Team, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.,Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Alterra, Animal Ecology Team, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.,Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden.,Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio s/n, Isla de la Cartuja, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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Oliveira MO, Freitas BM, Scheper J, Kleijn D. Size and Sex-Dependent Shrinkage of Dutch Bees during One-and-a-Half Centuries of Land-Use Change. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148983. [PMID: 26863608 PMCID: PMC4749255 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Land-use change and global warming are important factors driving bee decline, but it is largely unknown whether these drivers have resulted in changes in the life-history traits of bees. Recent studies have shown a stronger population decline of large- than small-bodied bee species, suggesting there may have been selective pressure on large, but not on small species to become smaller. Here we test this hypothesis by analyzing trends in bee body size of 18 Dutch species over a 147-year period using specimens from entomological collections. Large-bodied female bees shrank significantly faster than small-bodied female bees (6.5% and 0.5% respectively between 1900 and 2010). Changes in temperature during the flight period of bees did not influence the size-dependent shrinkage of female bees. Male bees did not shrink significantly over the same time period. Our results could imply that under conditions of declining habitat quantity and quality it is advantageous for individuals to be smaller. The size and sex-dependent responses of bees point towards an evolutionary response but genetic studies are required to confirm this. The declining body size of the large bee species that currently dominate flower visitation of both wild plants and insect-pollinated crops may have negative consequences for pollination service delivery.
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- Mikail O. Oliveira
- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, UFPA/MPEG, Belém, PA, 66075–110, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Pici Campus, Fortaleza, CE, 60356–000, Brazil
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- Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Animal Ecology Team, Alterra, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Animal Ecology Team, Alterra, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Marshall L, Carvalheiro LG, Aguirre‐Gutiérrez J, Bos M, de Groot GA, Kleijn D, Potts SG, Reemer M, Roberts S, Scheper J, Biesmeijer JC. Testing projected wild bee distributions in agricultural habitats: predictive power depends on species traits and habitat type. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:4426-36. [PMID: 26664689 PMCID: PMC4667819 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Revised: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Species distribution models (SDM) are increasingly used to understand the factors that regulate variation in biodiversity patterns and to help plan conservation strategies. However, these models are rarely validated with independently collected data and it is unclear whether SDM performance is maintained across distinct habitats and for species with different functional traits. Highly mobile species, such as bees, can be particularly challenging to model. Here, we use independent sets of occurrence data collected systematically in several agricultural habitats to test how the predictive performance of SDMs for wild bee species depends on species traits, habitat type, and sampling technique. We used a species distribution modeling approach parametrized for the Netherlands, with presence records from 1990 to 2010 for 193 Dutch wild bees. For each species, we built a Maxent model based on 13 climate and landscape variables. We tested the predictive performance of the SDMs with independent datasets collected from orchards and arable fields across the Netherlands from 2010 to 2013, using transect surveys or pan traps. Model predictive performance depended on species traits and habitat type. Occurrence of bee species specialized in habitat and diet was better predicted than generalist bees. Predictions of habitat suitability were also more precise for habitats that are temporally more stable (orchards) than for habitats that suffer regular alterations (arable), particularly for small, solitary bees. As a conservation tool, SDMs are best suited to modeling rarer, specialist species than more generalist and will work best in long-term stable habitats. The variability of complex, short-term habitats is difficult to capture in such models and historical land use generally has low thematic resolution. To improve SDMs' usefulness, models require explanatory variables and collection data that include detailed landscape characteristics, for example, variability of crops and flower availability. Additionally, testing SDMs with field surveys should involve multiple collection techniques.
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Affiliation(s)
- Leon Marshall
- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
- Department of GeographyUniversity of NamurNamurBelgium
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
- Institute of Integrative and Comparative BiologyUniversity of LeedsLeedsUnited Kingdom
- Departamento de EcologiaInstituto de Ciências BiológicasUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasília70910‐900Brasil
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics (IBED)University of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Louis Bolk InstituutDriebergenThe Netherlands
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- Alterra – Wageningen URWageningenThe Netherlands
- Resource Ecology GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Centre for Agri‐Environmental ResearchSchool of Agriculture, Policy and DevelopmentUniversity of ReadingReadingUnited Kingdom
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
- European Invertebrate Survey Kenniscentrum Insecten – The NetherlandsLeidenThe Netherlands
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- Centre for Agri‐Environmental ResearchSchool of Agriculture, Policy and DevelopmentUniversity of ReadingReadingUnited Kingdom
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics (IBED)University of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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Scheper J, Bommarco R, Holzschuh A, Potts SG, Riedinger V, Roberts SPM, Rundlöf M, Smith HG, Steffan-Dewenter I, Wickens JB, Wickens VJ, Kleijn D. Local and landscape-level floral resources explain effects of wildflower strips on wild bees across four European countries. J Appl Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jeroen Scheper
- Alterra; Animal Ecology Team; 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; 750 07 Uppsala Sweden
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; University of Reading; Reading RG6 6AR UK
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; University of Reading; Reading RG6 6AR UK
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- Department of Biology & Centre of Environmental and Climate Research; Lund University; 223 62 Lund Sweden
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- Department of Biology & Centre of Environmental and Climate Research; Lund University; 223 62 Lund Sweden
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology; Biocenter; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; University of Reading; Reading RG6 6AR UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; University of Reading; Reading RG6 6AR UK
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- Alterra; Animal Ecology Team; 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands
- Resource Ecology Group; Wageningen University; 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands
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Kleijn D, Winfree R, Bartomeus I, Carvalheiro LG, Henry M, Isaacs R, Klein AM, Kremen C, M'Gonigle LK, Rader R, Ricketts TH, Williams NM, Lee Adamson N, Ascher JS, Báldi A, Batáry P, Benjamin F, Biesmeijer JC, Blitzer EJ, Bommarco R, Brand MR, Bretagnolle V, Button L, Cariveau DP, Chifflet R, Colville JF, Danforth BN, Elle E, Garratt MPD, Herzog F, Holzschuh A, Howlett BG, Jauker F, Jha S, Knop E, Krewenka KM, Le Féon V, Mandelik Y, May EA, Park MG, Pisanty G, Reemer M, Riedinger V, Rollin O, Rundlöf M, Sardiñas HS, Scheper J, Sciligo AR, Smith HG, Steffan-Dewenter I, Thorp R, Tscharntke T, Verhulst J, Viana BF, Vaissière BE, Veldtman R, Ward KL, Westphal C, Potts SG. Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7414. [PMID: 26079893 PMCID: PMC4490361 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2014] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
There is compelling evidence that more diverse ecosystems deliver greater benefits to people, and these ecosystem services have become a key argument for biodiversity conservation. However, it is unclear how much biodiversity is needed to deliver ecosystem services in a cost-effective way. Here we show that, while the contribution of wild bees to crop production is significant, service delivery is restricted to a limited subset of all known bee species. Across crops, years and biogeographical regions, crop-visiting wild bee communities are dominated by a small number of common species, and threatened species are rarely observed on crops. Dominant crop pollinators persist under agricultural expansion and many are easily enhanced by simple conservation measures, suggesting that cost-effective management strategies to promote crop pollination should target a different set of species than management strategies to promote threatened bees. Conserving the biological diversity of bees therefore requires more than just ecosystem-service-based arguments. One argument for conserving biological diversity is that it delivers beneficial ecosystem services. However, Kleijn et al. show that the economic benefits of crop pollination are delivered by only a small subset of relatively common species, arguing that threatened species should be considered separately.
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- David Kleijn
- Animal Ecology Team, Center for Ecosystem Studies, Alterra, Wageningen UR, PO Box 47, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.,Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
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- Departmento Ecología Integrativa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EDB-CSIC), Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- School of Biology, University of Leeds, Miall Building, Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France.,UMT Protection des Abeilles dans l'Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 578 Wilson Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology Group, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg D-79106, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3114, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3114, USA
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- School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales 2350, Australia
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- Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, 617 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány u. 2-4, Vácrátót 2163, Hungary
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- Agroecology Group, Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University, Grisebachstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
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- Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa.,Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa.,Iziko South African Museum, 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, CNRS and Université La Rochelle, F-79360 Beauvoir-sur-Niort, France
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University,8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
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- Plateforme Régionale d'Innovation "Agriculture Biologique et Périurbaine Durable", EPLEFPA du Lycée Nature, Allée des Druides, 85000 La Roche-sur-Yon, France
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, CNRS and Université La Rochelle, F-79360 Beauvoir-sur-Niort, France
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
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- Agricultural Landscapes and Biodiversity, Agroscope, Reckenholzstr. 191, CH-8046 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Sustainable Production, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Private Bag 4704, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 401 Biological Laboratories, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Community Ecology Group, University of Bern, Baltzerstr. 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Agroecology Group, Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University, Grisebachstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France
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- Department of Entomology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 578 Wilson Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Entomology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France.,UMT Protection des Abeilles dans l'Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France.,ITSAP - Institut de l'abeille, 149 rue de Bercy, F-75012 Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3114, USA
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- Animal Ecology Team, Center for Ecosystem Studies, Alterra, Wageningen UR, PO Box 47, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3114, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden.,Centre of Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Agroecology Group, Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University, Grisebachstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Biology Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-290, Brazil
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- UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France.,UMT Protection des Abeilles dans l'Environnement, INRA, CS 40509, F-84914 Avignon, France
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa.,Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Agroecology Group, Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University, Grisebachstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
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Breeze TD, Vaissière BE, Bommarco R, Petanidou T, Seraphides N, Kozák L, Scheper J, Biesmeijer JC, Kleijn D, Gyldenkærne S, Moretti M, Holzschuh A, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, Pärtel M, Zobel M, Potts SG. Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe. PLoS One 2014; 9:e82996. [PMID: 24421873 PMCID: PMC3885438 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2013] [Accepted: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Declines in insect pollinators across Europe have raised concerns about the supply of pollination services to agriculture. Simultaneously, EU agricultural and biofuel policies have encouraged substantial growth in the cultivated area of insect pollinated crops across the continent. Using data from 41 European countries, this study demonstrates that the recommended number of honeybees required to provide crop pollination across Europe has risen 4.9 times as fast as honeybee stocks between 2005 and 2010. Consequently, honeybee stocks were insufficient to supply >90% of demands in 22 countries studied. These findings raise concerns about the capacity of many countries to cope with major losses of wild pollinators and highlight numerous critical gaps in current understanding of pollination service supplies and demands, pointing to a pressing need for further research into this issue.
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- Tom D. Breeze
- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Department of Nature Conservation, Zoology and Game Management, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Animal Ecology Team, Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Animal Ecology Team, Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Institution for Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Community Ecology Research Unit Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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Scheper J, Holzschuh A, Kuussaari M, Potts SG, Rundlöf M, Smith HG, Kleijn D. Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss--a meta-analysis. Ecol Lett 2013; 16:912-20. [PMID: 23714393 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 321] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2013] [Revised: 03/10/2013] [Accepted: 04/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
In Europe, agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been introduced in response to concerns about farmland biodiversity declines. Yet, as AES have delivered variable results, a better understanding of what determines their success or failure is urgently needed. Focusing on pollinating insects, we quantitatively reviewed how environmental factors affect the effectiveness of AES. Our results suggest that the ecological contrast in floral resources created by schemes drives the response of pollinators to AES but that this response is moderated by landscape context and farmland type, with more positive responses in croplands (vs. grasslands) located in simple (vs. cleared or complex) landscapes. These findings inform us how to promote pollinators and associated pollination services in species-poor landscapes. They do not, however, present viable strategies to mitigate loss of threatened or endangered species. This indicates that the objectives and design of AES should distinguish more clearly between biodiversity conservation and delivery of ecosystem services.
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- Jeroen Scheper
- Alterra, Animal Ecology Team, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Kleijn D, Rundlöf M, Scheper J, Smith HG, Tscharntke T. Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline? Trends Ecol Evol 2011; 26:474-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 400] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2011] [Revised: 05/19/2011] [Accepted: 05/25/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Scheper J. [Objective ascertainable indicators of pork quality]. Dtsch Tierarztl Wochenschr 1988; 95:227-31. [PMID: 3046899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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