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A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

  • Lichtenberg EM Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
  • Kennedy CM Global Lands Program, The Nature Conservancy, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
  • Kremen C Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • Batáry P Agroecology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Berendse F Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
  • Bommarco R Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Bosque-Pérez NA Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
  • Carvalheiro LG Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
  • Snyder WE Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
  • Williams NM Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
  • Winfree R Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
  • Klatt BK Agroecology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Åström S Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway.
  • Benjamin F Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
  • Brittain C Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
  • Chaplin-Kramer R Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Clough Y Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
  • Danforth B Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  • Diekötter T Department of Landscape Ecology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
  • Eigenbrode SD Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
  • Ekroos J Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
  • Elle E Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  • Freitas BM Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
  • Fukuda Y Centres for the Study of Agriculture Food and Environment, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Gaines-Day HR Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Grab H Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  • Gratton C Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Holzschuh A Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
  • Isaacs R Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
  • Isaia M Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
  • Jha S Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
  • Jonason D Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Jones VP Department of Entomology, Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Wenatchee, WA, USA.
  • Klein AM Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
  • Krauss J Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
  • Letourneau DK Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • Macfadyen S CSIRO, Acton, ACT, Australia.
  • Mallinger RE Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Martin EA Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
  • Martinez E CORPOICA, Centro de Investigación Obonuco, Pasto, Colombia.
  • Memmott J School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  • Morandin L Pollinator Partnership Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada.
  • Neame L Alberta Environment and Parks, Regional Planning Branch, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  • Otieno M Department of Agricultural Resource Management, Embu University College, Embu, Kenya.
  • Park MG Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  • Pfiffner L Department of Crop Science, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland.
  • Pocock MJO NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
  • Ponce C Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
  • Potts SG Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
  • Poveda K Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  • Ramos M Department of Agricultural Technology, University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, Utuado, PR, USA.
  • Rosenheim JA Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
  • Rundlöf M Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
  • Sardiñas H Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • Saunders ME Institute for Land Water & Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia.
  • Schon NL AgResearch, Lincoln Research Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • Sciligo AR Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • Sidhu CS University of California Cooperative Extension, San Mateo & San Francisco Counties, Half Moon Bay, CA, USA.
  • Steffan-Dewenter I Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
  • Tscharntke T Agroecology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Veselý M Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • Weisser WW Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department for Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
  • Wilson JK Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
  • Crowder DW Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
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  • 2017-05-11
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  • Global change biology. - 2017
English Agricultural intensification is a leading cause of global biodiversity loss, which can reduce the provisioning of ecosystem services in managed ecosystems. Organic farming and plant diversification are farm management schemes that may mitigate potential ecological harm by increasing species richness and boosting related ecosystem services to agroecosystems. What remains unclear is the extent to which farm management schemes affect biodiversity components other than species richness, and whether impacts differ across spatial scales and landscape contexts. Using a global metadataset, we quantified the effects of organic farming and plant diversification on abundance, local diversity (communities within fields), and regional diversity (communities across fields) of arthropod pollinators, predators, herbivores, and detritivores. Both organic farming and higher in-field plant diversity enhanced arthropod abundance, particularly for rare taxa. This resulted in increased richness but decreased evenness. While these responses were stronger at local relative to regional scales, richness and abundance increased at both scales, and richness on farms embedded in complex relative to simple landscapes. Overall, both organic farming and in-field plant diversification exerted the strongest effects on pollinators and predators, suggesting these management schemes can facilitate ecosystem service providers without augmenting herbivore (pest) populations. Our results suggest that organic farming and plant diversification promote diverse arthropod metacommunities that may provide temporal and spatial stability of ecosystem service provisioning. Conserving diverse plant and arthropod communities in farming systems therefore requires sustainable practices that operate both within fields and across landscapes.
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