Assessing the resilience of biodiversity-driven functions in agroecosystems under environmental change

Martin, Emily A.; Feit, Benjamin; Réquier, Fabrice; Friberg, Hanna; Jonsson, Mattias

doi:10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.02.003

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“…It has been suggested that robustness and evenness may be associated with pollination network stability (Martin, Feit, Requier, Friberg, & Jonsson, 2019;Tylianakis, Laliberté, Nielsen, & Bascompte, 2010).…”

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Forest proximity and lowland mosaic increase robustness of tropical pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards

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Section: The Response Of Pollination Network To Environmental Effectsmentioning

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Forest proximity and lowland mosaic increase robustness of tropical pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…A major determinant of the vulnerability of ecosystem services to environmental change is their resilience to disturbance [1,2]. Resilient ecosystem services can absorb a substantial amount of disturbance before transitioning to an alternate state, whereas services of low resilience are likely to transition when exposed even to a relatively small level of disturbance [2,3]. In addition, resilient ecosystem services can recover faster and/or persist better in response to disturbance than their low resilience counterparts [2,3].…”

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Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change

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Increased climate variability as a result of anthropogenic climate change can threaten the functioning of ecosystem services. However, diverse responses to climate change among species (response diversity) can provide ecosystems with resilience to this growing threat. Measuring and managing response diversity and resilience to global change are key ecological challenges. Here, we develop a novel index of climate resilience of ecosystem services, exemplified by the thermal resilience of predator communities providing biological pest control. Field assays revealed substantial differences in the temperature-dependent activity of predator species and indices of thermal resilience varied among predator communities occupying different fields. Predator assemblages with higher thermal resilience provided more stable pest control in microcosms where the temperature was experimentally varied, confirming that the index of thermal resilience developed here is linked to predator function. Importantly, complex landscapes containing a high number of non-crop habitat patches were more likely to contain predator communities with high thermal resilience. Thus, the conservation and restoration of non-crop habitats in agricultural landscapes—practices known to strengthen natural pest suppression under current conditions—will also confer resilience in ecosystem service provisioning to climate change.

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“…The approach is based on the identification of traits involved in plant–bee interactions (i.e. ‘trait matching’, Bartomeus et al 2016 ; Martin et al 2019 ; Klumpers et al 2019 ). For instance, tongue length in bees determines floral resource acquisition: bees with long tongue are expected to visit plants with deep corolla, suggesting a strong matching between flower and bee morphology (Bartomeus et al 2016 ).…”

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Grassland-to-crop conversion in agricultural landscapes has lasting impact on the trait diversity of bees

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Context Global pollinator decline has motivated much research to understand the underlying mechanisms. Among the multiple pressures threatening pollinators, habitat loss has been suggested as a key-contributing factor. While habitat destruction is often associated with immediate negative impacts, pollinators can also exhibit delayed responses over time. Objectives We used a trait-based approach to investigate how past and current land use at both local and landscape levels impact plant and wild bee communities in grasslands through a functional lens. Methods We measured flower and bee morphological traits that mediate plant–bee trophic linkage in 66 grasslands. Using an extensive database of 20 years of land-use records, we tested the legacy effects of the landscape-level conversion of grassland to crop on flower and bee trait diversity. Results Land-use history was a strong driver of flower and bee trait diversity in grasslands. Particularly, bee trait diversity was lower in landscapes where much of the land was converted from grassland to crop long ago. Bee trait diversity was also strongly driven by plant trait diversity computed with flower traits. However, this relationship was not observed in landscapes with a long history of grassland-to-crop conversion. The effects of land-use history on bee communities were as strong as those of current land use, such as grassland or mass-flowering crop cover in the landscape. Conclusions Habitat loss that occurred long ago in agricultural landscapes alters the relationship between plants and bees over time. The retention of permanent grassland sanctuaries within intensive agricultural landscapes can offset bee decline.

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Assessing the resilience of biodiversity-driven functions in agroecosystems under environmental change

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Cited by 42 publications

References 279 publications

Forest proximity and lowland mosaic increase robustness of tropical pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards

Forest proximity and lowland mosaic increase robustness of tropical pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards

Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change

Grassland-to-crop conversion in agricultural landscapes has lasting impact on the trait diversity of bees

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