Options
Title
A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008:
Author(s)
Lichtenberg, Elinor M
Kennedy, Christina M
Winfree, Rachel
Klatt, Bjorn K
Astrom, Sandra
Benjamin, Faye
Brittain, Claire
Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
Clough, Yann
Danforth, Bryan N
Diekotter, Tim
Eigenbrode, Sanford D
Kremen, Claire
Ekroos, Johan
Elle, Elizabeth
Freitas, Breno M
Fukuda, Yuki
Gaines-Day, Hannah R
Grab, Heather
Gratton, Claudio
Holzschuh, Andrea
Isaacs, Rufus
Isaia, Marco
Batary, Peter
Jha, Shalene
Jonason, Dennis
Jones, Vincent P
Klein, Alexandra-Maria
Krauss, Jochen
Letourneau, Deborah K
Macfadyen, Sarina
Mallinger, Rachel E
Martin, Emily A
Martinez, Eliana
Berendse, Frank
Memmott, Jane
Morandin, Lora
Neame, Lisa
Otieno, Mark
Park, Mia G
Pfiffner, Lukas
Pocock, Michael J O
Ponce, Carlos
Potts, Simon G
Poveda, Katja
Bommarco, Riccardo
Ramos, Mariangie
Rosenheim, Jay A
Rundlof, Maj
Sardinas, Hilary S
Schon, Nicole L
Sciligo, Amber R
Sidhu, C Sheena
Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
Tscharntke, Teja
Bosque-Perez, Nilsa A
Vesely, Milan
Weisser, Wolfgang
Wilson, Julianna K
Crowder, David W
Carvalheiro, Luisa G
Snyder, William E
Williams, Neal M
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
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.
Publication Type
Journal Article
Source of Publication
Global Change Biology, 23(11), p. 4946-4957
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication
United Kingdom
ISSN
1365-2486
1354-1013
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020
Peer Reviewed
Yes
HERDC Category Description
Peer Reviewed
Yes
Statistics to Oct 2018:
Visitors: 8<br />Views: 8<br />Downloads: 0
Permanent link to this record