Modelling Interaction Networks for Enhanced Ecosystem Services in Agroecosystems

Tixier, Philippe; Peyrard, Nathalie; Aubertot, Jean‐Noël; Gaba, Sabrina; Radoszycki, Julia; Caron-Lormier, Geoffrey; Vinatier, Fabrice; Mollot, Grégory; Sabbadin, Régis

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“…Together, these approaches, coupled with the development of mechanistic models (e.g., InVEST model, http://www. naturalcapitalproject.org), will contribute to an improved management of ecosystems for the provision of multiple services in the future (Tixier et al, 2013).…”

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“…The assessment of intermediate services is often more costly and time-consuming than for final services. This partly stems from the lack of proxies for ecological functions and the fact that links between ecosystem functions and final services may be context dependent, e.g., depend on spatial association (Tixier et al, 2013) or ecosystem type (Feld et al, 2009 Kremen et al, 2002), indicators of service provision (e.g., dung removal by dung beetles; Gollan et al, 2013) and proxies that are indirectly linked to ecosystem services (e.g., proportion of semi-natural habitats in the surrounding of a focal field; Rusch et al, 2012). During the past decade, there has been considerable effort in developing instruments to perform assessments of ecosystem services, but measuring ecosystem services based on scientific standards is still not trivial (Carpenter et al, 2009).…”

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Ecosystem servicesâ€”current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

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† These authors have contributed equally to this work.The concept of ecosystem services was originally developed to illustrate the benefits that natural ecosystems generate for society and to raise awareness for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. In this article we identify major challenges and opportunities for ecologists involved in empirical or modeling ecosystem service research. The first challenge arises from the fact that the ecosystem service concept has not been generated in the context of managed systems. Ecologists need to identify the effect of anthropogenic interventions in order to propose practices to benefit service-providing organisms and associated services. The second challenge arises from the need to evaluate relationships between indicators of ecosystem services that are collected in ecological studies while accounting for uncertainties of ecological processes that underlie these services. We suggest basing the assessment of ecosystem services on the utilization of sets of indicators that cover aspects of service-providing units, ecosystem management and landscape modification. The third challenge arises from the limited understanding of the nature of relationships between services and a lack of a general statistical framework to address these links. To manage ecosystem service provisioning, ecologists need to establish whether services respond to a shared driver or if services are directly linked to each other. Finally, studies relating biodiversity to ecosystem services often focus on services at small spatial or short temporal scales, but research on the protection of services is often directed toward services providing benefits at large spatial scales. Ecological research needs to address a range of spatial and temporal scales to provide a multifaceted understanding of how nature promotes human well-being. Addressing these challenges in the future offers a unique opportunity for ecologists to act as promoters for the understanding about how to conserve benefits gained from nature.

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Section: Challenge 3: Analyzing Relationships Between Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Ecosystem servicesâ€”current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

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“…Second, we need to identify, through coupled experimental and predictive modelling 622 approaches the extent that different network properties (nestedness, connectance, modularity) 623 contribute to community dynamics or stability (Astegiano et al, 2015;Tylianakis et al, 624 2010). Third, how can extinction-driven alteration of network structure affect the delivery of 625 crop pollination services and wild plant reproduction (Bohan et al, 2013;Tixier et al, 2013). 626…”

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Protecting an Ecosystem Service

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Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. considers the importance of conserving pollinator diversity to maintain a suite of functional 79 traits to provide a diverse set of pollinator services. We explore how we can better understand 80 and mitigate the factors that threaten insect pollinator richness, placing our discussion within 81 the context of populations in predominantly agricultural landscapes in addition to urban 82 environments. We highlight a selection of important evidence gaps, with a number of 83 complementary research steps that can be taken to better understand: i) the stability of 84 pollinator communities in different landscapes in order to provide diverse pollinator services; 85 ii) how we can study the drivers of population change to mitigate the effects and support 86 stable sources of pollinator services; and, iii) how we can manage habitats in complex 87 landscapes to support insect pollinators and provide sustainable pollinator services for the 88 future. We advocate a collaborative effort to gain higher quality abundance data to 89 understand the stability of pollinator populations and predict future trends. In addition, for 90 effective mitigation strategies to be adopted, researchers need to conduct rigorous field-91 testing of outcomes under different landscape settings, acknowledge the needs of end-users 92 when developing research proposals and consider effective methods of knowledge transfer to 93 ensure effective uptake of actions. 94 95 96 5 | P a g e | P a g e

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“…Markov Decision Process (MDP) or Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) have been used to propose new management strategies for conservation (Chadès et al, 2008) and agriculture (Tixier et al, 2013b). These mathematical models provide a framework, taking account of the cost-benefit trade-offs, for sequential decision-making when there is a high level of uncertainty.…”

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“…Such knowledge would gain to be investigated within an eco-evolutionary framework, to explore effects in the medium term (effectiveness of the management techniques) and the long term (sustainability of the management techniques). This would also allow taking advantage of the possibilities provided by complex ecological modeling (e.g., network models in the widest sense from food webs to landscape networks which take account of complex ecological properties to test management strategies, Tixier et al, 2013b). The management of the multiple services delivered by agroecosystems and of the corresponding trade-offs has recently been addressed by Bommarco et al (2013), while Tscharntke et al (2012) outlined the shortcomings of a dichotomic view between land sharing and land sparing for real world application.…”

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Managing biotic interactions for ecological intensification of agroecosystems

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Agriculture faces the challenge of increasing food production while simultaneously reducing the use of inputs and delivering other ecosystem services. Ecological intensification of agriculture is a paradigm shift, which has recently been proposed to meet such challenges through the manipulation of biotic interactions. While this approach opens up new possibilities, there are many constraints related to the complexity of agroecosystems that make it difficult to implement. Future advances, which are essential to guide agricultural policy, require an eco-evolutionary framework to ensure that ecological intensification is beneficial in the long term.

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Modelling Interaction Networks for Enhanced Ecosystem Services in Agroecosystems

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Ecosystem servicesâ€”current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

Ecosystem servicesâ€”current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

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