A5032327246- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
Lund University
2016-2025
University of the West of England
2024
Bolin Centre for Climate Research
2015-2024
Skåne University Hospital
2011-2022
Getinge (Sweden)
2019-2022
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
2020
European Commission
2020
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
2020
Flagstaff Medical Center
2019
Kjell och Märta Beijers Stiftelse
2017
Abstract There is compelling evidence that more diverse ecosystems deliver greater benefits to people, and these ecosystem services have become a key argument for biodiversity conservation. However, it unclear how much needed in cost-effective way. Here we show that, while the contribution of wild bees crop production significant, service delivery restricted limited subset all known bee species. Across crops, years biogeographical regions, crop-visiting communities are dominated by small...
Significance Many of the world’s crops are pollinated by insects, and bees often assumed to be most important pollinators. To our knowledge, study is first quantitative evaluation relative contribution non-bee pollinators global pollinator-dependent crops. Across 39 studies we show that insects other than efficient providing 39% visits crop flowers. A shift in perspective from a bee-only focus needed for assessments pollinator biodiversity economic value pollination. These should also...
Abstract Extensively managed grasslands are recognized globally for their high biodiversity and social cultural values. However, capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services (ES) as parts of agricultural systems is surprisingly understudied compared other production systems. We undertook a comprehensive overview ES provided by natural semi‐natural grasslands, using southern Africa (SA) northwest Europe case studies, respectively. show that these can supply additional non‐agricultural...
Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), we partition the relative importance of richness, abundance, dominance for pollination; biological pest control; final yields in context ongoing land-use change. Pollinator enemy directly supported...
Abstract To address the challenges of biodiversity conservation and commodity production, a framework has been proposed that distinguishes between integration (“land sharing”) separation sparing”) production. Controversy arisen around this partly because many scholars have focused specifically on food production rather than more encompassing notions such as land scarcity or security. further surrounds practical value partial trade‐off analyses, ways in which should be quantified, series...
Abstract Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key aim of sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement crop fields other habitats in impacts arthropods their functions poorly known. Synthesising data from 49 studies (1515 landscapes) across Europe, we examined effects landscape composition (% habitats) configuration (edge density) on margins, pest control, pollination yields. Configuration interacted with proportions non‐crop...
Summary In intensively farmed agricultural landscapes, many species are confined to very small uncultivated areas such as field margins. However, it has been suggested that these habitat elements cannot support viable populations of all the observed there. Instead, richness and abundance in fragments may, at least partly, be dependent on dispersal from larger semi‐natural grassland fragments. We tested this hypothesis for butterflies bumble bees 12 independent landscapes a region intense...
The species richness of flower-visiting insects has declined in past decades, raising concerns that the ecosystem service they provide by pollinating crops and wild plants is threatened. relative commonness different with shared ecological traits can play a pervasive role determining functioning, but information on changes abundances pollinators over time lacking. We gathered data bumble-bee Swedish red clover fields during three periods last 70 years (1940s, 1960s present), seed yields...
Summary Growing evidence for declines in wild bees calls the development and implementation of effective mitigation measures. Enhancing floral resources is a widely accepted measure promoting agricultural landscapes, but effectiveness varies considerably between landscapes regions. We hypothesize that this variation mainly driven by combination direct effects measures on local availability surrounding landscape. To test this, we established wildflower strips four European countries, using...
Abstract Mass‐flowering crops ( MFC s) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in fields nearby semi‐natural habitats SNH s). Across six European regions 2 years, we assessed how landscape‐scale cover of s affected densities 408 adjacent s. In fields, bumblebees, solitary bees, managed honeybees hoverflies were negatively related to the landscape. s, bumblebees declined with increasing but increased. The all pollinators generally unrelated Although apparently...
To assess ecological consequences of bushmeat hunting in African lowland rainforests, we compared paired sites, with high and low pressure, three areas southeastern Nigeria. In hunted populations important seed dispersers-both small large primates (including the Cross River gorilla, Gorilla gorilla diehli)-were drastically reduced. Large rodents were more abundant even though they are hunted. Hunted protected sites had similar mature tree communities dominated by primate-dispersed species....
Summary Increasing landscape complexity can enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems. However, policies based on conversion of arable land into semi‐natural habitats to increase be difficult implement. Although it appears a promising management option, nothing is known about the effect increasing diversity through crop rotations delivery services. In this study, we examined how rotation intensity at different spatial scales affect flow stability natural pest control...
Abstract Co‐flowering plant species commonly share flower visitors, and thus have the potential to influence each other's pollination. In this study we analysed 750 quantitative plant–pollinator networks from 28 studies representing diverse biomes worldwide. We show that for one another indirectly via shared pollinators was greater plants whose resources were more abundant (higher floral unit number nectar sugar content) accessible. The indirect also stronger between phylogenetically closer...
Reversing biodiversity declines requires a better understanding of organismal mobility, as movement processes dictate the scale at which species interact with environment. Previous studies have demonstrated that foraging ranges, and therefore, habitat use increases body size. Yet, ranges are also affected by other life-history traits, such sociality, influence need ability to detect resources. We evaluated effect size sociality on potential realized using compiled dataset 383 measurements...
Summary The recent dramatic decline in farmland biodiversity is often attributed to agricultural intensification and structural changes the landscape. One suggested farm practice seen benefit reverse declines organic farming. Because farming viewed as a more sustainable form of agriculture it currently subsidized by European agri‐environment schemes. However, efficiency schemes preserve has recently been questioned, partly because their uptake highest extensively farmed heterogeneous...