@article{citation_3862, 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.
}, author = {Matteo Dainese and Emily A Martin and Marcelo A Aizen and Matthias Albrecht and Ignasi Bartomeus and Riccardo Bommarco and Luisa G Carvalheiro and Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer and Vesna Gagic and Lucas A Garibaldi and Jaboury Ghazoul and Heather Grab and Mattias Jonsson and Daniel S Karp and Christina M Kennedy and David Kleijn and Claire Kremen and Douglas A Landis and Deborah K Letourneau and Lorenzo Marini and Katja Poveda and Romina Rader and Henrik G Smith and Teja Tscharntke and Georg K S Andersson and Isabelle Badenhausser and Svenja Baensch and Antonio Diego M Bezerra and Felix J J A Bianchi and Virginie Boreux and Vincent Bretagnolle and Berta Caballero-Lopez and Pablo Cavigliasso and Aleksandar Ćetković and Natacha P Chacoff and Alice Classen and Sarah Cusser and Felipe D da Silva e Silva and G Arjen de Groot and Jan H Dudenhöffer and Johan Ekroos and Thijs Fijen and Pierre Franck and Breno M Freitas and Michael P D Garratt and Claudio Gratton and Juliana Hipólito and Andrea Holzschuh and Lauren Hunt and Aaron L Iverson and Shalene Jha and Tamar Keasar and Tania N Kim and Miriam Kishinevsky and Björn K Klatt and Alexandra-Maria Klein and Kristin M Krewenka and Smitha Krishnan and Ashley E Larsen and Claire Lavigne and Heidi Liere and Bea Maas and Rachel E Mallinger and Eliana Martinez Pachon and Alejandra Martínez-Salinas and Timothy D Meehan and Matthew G E Mitchell and Gonzalo A R Molina and Maike Nesper and Lovisa Nilsson and Megan E Rourke and Marcell K Peters and Milan Plećaš and Simon G Potts and Davi de L Ramos and Jay A Rosenheim and Maj Rundlöf and Adrien Rusch and Agustín Sáez and Jeroen Scheper and Matthias Schleuning and Julia M Schmack and Amber R Sciligo and Colleen Seymour and Dara A Stanley and Rebecca Stewart and Jane C Stout and Louis Sutter and Mayura B Takada and Hisatomo Taki and Giovanni Tamburini and Matthias Tschumi and Blandina F Viana and Catrin Westphal and Bryony K Willcox and Stephen D Wratten and Akira Yoshioka and Carlos Zaragoza-Trello and Wei Zhang and Yi Zou and Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter}, title = {A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production}, year = {2019}, note = {LTER ack 102}, journal = {Science Advances}, pages = {eaax0121}, volume = {5}, doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aax0121} }