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Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation. Conversion to agriculture is destroying and degrading semi‐natural ecosystems while conventional land‐use intensification (e.g. in...

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Autores principales: Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anikó, Espíndola, Anahí, Vanbergen, Adam J., Settele, Josef, Kremen, Claire, Dicks, Lynn V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28346980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12762
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author Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anikó
Espíndola, Anahí
Vanbergen, Adam J.
Settele, Josef
Kremen, Claire
Dicks, Lynn V.
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Espíndola, Anahí
Vanbergen, Adam J.
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description Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation. Conversion to agriculture is destroying and degrading semi‐natural ecosystems while conventional land‐use intensification (e.g. industrial management of large‐scale monocultures with high chemical inputs) homogenises landscape structure and quality. Together, these anthropogenic processes reduce the connectivity of populations and erode floral and nesting resources to undermine pollinator abundance and diversity, and ultimately pollination services. Ecological intensification of agriculture represents a strategic alternative to ameliorate these drivers of pollinator decline while supporting sustainable food production, by promoting biodiversity beneficial to agricultural production through management practices such as intercropping, crop rotations, farm‐level diversification and reduced agrochemical use. We critically evaluate its potential to address and reverse the land use and management trends currently degrading pollinator communities and potentially causing widespread pollination deficits. We find that many of the practices that constitute ecological intensification can contribute to mitigating the drivers of pollinator decline. Our findings support ecological intensification as a solution to pollinator declines, and we discuss ways to promote it in agricultural policy and practice.
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spelling pubmed-68495392019-11-15 Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anikó Espíndola, Anahí Vanbergen, Adam J. Settele, Josef Kremen, Claire Dicks, Lynn V. Ecol Lett Review and Synthesis Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation. Conversion to agriculture is destroying and degrading semi‐natural ecosystems while conventional land‐use intensification (e.g. industrial management of large‐scale monocultures with high chemical inputs) homogenises landscape structure and quality. Together, these anthropogenic processes reduce the connectivity of populations and erode floral and nesting resources to undermine pollinator abundance and diversity, and ultimately pollination services. Ecological intensification of agriculture represents a strategic alternative to ameliorate these drivers of pollinator decline while supporting sustainable food production, by promoting biodiversity beneficial to agricultural production through management practices such as intercropping, crop rotations, farm‐level diversification and reduced agrochemical use. We critically evaluate its potential to address and reverse the land use and management trends currently degrading pollinator communities and potentially causing widespread pollination deficits. We find that many of the practices that constitute ecological intensification can contribute to mitigating the drivers of pollinator decline. Our findings support ecological intensification as a solution to pollinator declines, and we discuss ways to promote it in agricultural policy and practice. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-03-27 2017-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6849539/ /pubmed/28346980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12762 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by CNRS and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Review and Synthesis
Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anikó
Espíndola, Anahí
Vanbergen, Adam J.
Settele, Josef
Kremen, Claire
Dicks, Lynn V.
Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
title Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
title_full Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
title_fullStr Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
title_full_unstemmed Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
title_short Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
title_sort ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
topic Review and Synthesis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28346980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12762
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