A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Matteo Dainese; Emily A. Martin; Marcelo A. Aizen; Matthias Albrecht; Ignasi Bartomeus; Riccardo Bommarco; Luisa G. Carvalheiro; Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Vesna Gagic; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Jaboury Ghazoul; Heather Grab; Mattias Jonsson; Daniel S. Karp; Christina M. Kennedy; David Kleijn; Claire Kremen; Douglas A. Landis; Deborah K. Letourneau; Lorenzo Marini; Katja Poveda; Romina Rader; Henrik G. Smith; Teja Tscharntke; Georg K. S. Andersson; Isabelle Badenhausser; Svenja Baensch; Antonio Diego M. Bezerra; Felix J. J. A. Bianchi; Virginie Boreux; Vincent Bretagnolle; Berta Caballero-Lopez; Pablo Cavigliasso; Aleksandar Ćetković; Natacha P. Chacoff; Alice Classen; Sarah Cusser; Felipe D. da Silva e Silva; G. Arjen de Groot; Jan H. Dudenhöffer; Johan Ekroos; Thijs Fijen; Pierre Franck; Breno M. Freitas; Michael P. D. Garratt; Claudio Gratton; Juliana Hipólito; Andrea Holzschuh; Lauren Hunt; Aaron L. Iverson

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax0121

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Matteo Dainese, Emily A. Martin, Marcelo A. Aizen, Matthias Albrecht, Ignasi Bartomeus, Riccardo Bommarco, Luisa G. Carvalheiro, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Vesna Gagic, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Jaboury Ghazoul, Heather Grab, Mattias Jonsson, Daniel S. Karp, Christina M. Kennedy, David Kleijn, Claire Kremen, Douglas A. Landis, Deborah K. Letourneau, Lorenzo MariniKatja Poveda, Romina Rader, Henrik G. Smith, Teja Tscharntke, Georg K. S. Andersson, Isabelle Badenhausser, Svenja Baensch, Antonio Diego M. Bezerra, Felix J. J. A. Bianchi, Virginie Boreux, Vincent Bretagnolle, Berta Caballero-Lopez, Pablo Cavigliasso, Aleksandar Ćetković, Natacha P. Chacoff, Alice Classen, Sarah Cusser, Felipe D. da Silva e Silva, G. Arjen de Groot, Jan H. Dudenhöffer, Johan Ekroos, Thijs Fijen, Pierre Franck, Breno M. Freitas, Michael P. D. Garratt, Claudio Gratton, Juliana Hipólito, Andrea Holzschuh, Lauren Hunt, Aaron L. Iverson

Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

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Abstract

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), we partition the relative importance of species richness, abundance, and dominance for pollination; biological pest control; and final yields in the context of ongoing land-use change. Pollinator and enemy richness directly supported ecosystem services in addition to and independent of abundance and dominance. Up to 50% of the negative effects of landscape simplification on ecosystem services was due to richness losses of service-providing organisms, with negative consequences for crop yields. Maintaining the biodiversity of ecosystem service providers is therefore vital to sustain the flow of key agroecosystem benefits to society.

Original language	English
Article number	eaax0121
Journal	Science advances
Volume	5
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 2 Zero Hunger
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Agriculture/methods
Biodiversity
Crop Production/methods
Crops, Agricultural/metabolism
Ecosystem
Humans
Pest Control, Biological/methods
Pollination/physiology

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Dainese, M., Martin, E. A., Aizen, M. A., Albrecht, M., Bartomeus, I., Bommarco, R., Carvalheiro, L. G., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Gagic, V., Garibaldi, L. A., Ghazoul, J., Grab, H., Jonsson, M., Karp, D. S., Kennedy, C. M., Kleijn, D., Kremen, C., Landis, D. A., Letourneau, D. K., ... Iverson, A. L. (2019). A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. Science advances, 5(10), Article eaax0121. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax0121

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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

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