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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5518-3455, Kleijn, D., Williams, N.M., Tschumi, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7991-7780, Blaauw, B.R., Bommarco, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-0476, Campbell, A.J., Dainese, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7052-5572, Drummond, F.A., Entling, M.H., Ganser, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-9621, Arjen de Groot, G., Goulson, D., Grab, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1073-8805, Hamilton, H., Herzog, F., Isaacs, R., Jacot, K., Jeanneret, P., Jonsson, M., Knop, E., Kremen, C., Landis, D.A., Loeb, G.M., Marini, L., McKerchar, Megan, Morandin, L., Pfister, S.C., Potts, S.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2045-980X, Rundlöf, M., Sardiñas, H., Sciligo, A., Thies, C., Tscharntke, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4482-3178, Venturini, E., Veromann, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0977-5270, Vollhardt, I.M.G., Wäckers, F., Ward, K., Wilby, A., Woltz, M., Wratten, S. and Sutter, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2626-216X
(2020)
The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis.
Ecology letters, 23 (10).
pp. 1488-1498.
ISSN 1461-0248
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Abstract
Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of different floral plantings, their characteristics and consequences for crop yield is lacking. Here we quantified the impacts of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control (18 studies) and pollination services (17 studies) in adjacent crops in North America, Europe and New Zealand. Flower strips, but not hedgerows, enhanced pest control services in adjacent fields by 16% on average. However, effects on crop pollination and yield were more variable. Our synthesis identifies several important drivers of variability in effectiveness of plantings: pollination services declined exponentially with distance from plantings, and perennial and older flower strips with higher flowering plant diversity enhanced pollination more effectively. These findings provide promising pathways to optimise floral plantings to more effectively contribute to ecosystem service delivery and ecological intensification of agriculture in the future.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The full-text of the online published article can be accessed via the official URL. © 2020 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | Agroecology, agri-environment schemes, bee pollinators, conservation biological control, ecological intensification, farmland biodiversity, floral enhancements, natural pest regulation, pollination reservoirs, sustainable agriculture, wildflower strips |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QK Botany |
| Divisions: | College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Science and the Environment |
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| Copyright Info: | Open access article |
| SWORD Depositor: | Prof. Pub Router |
| Depositing User: | Megan Mckerchar |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2020 12:47 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2020 09:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9667 |
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