Land-use impacts on crop yield: direct and indirect roles of arthropods and associated ecosystem services in European farmland.

IF 4 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape Ecology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-08 DOI:10.1007/s10980-025-02117-w

Roman Bucher, Péter Batáry, Julia Baudry, Léa Beaumelle, Andrea Čerevková, Enrique G de la Riva, El Aziz Djoudi, Tara Dirilgen, Róbert Gallé, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Alison O'Reilly, Ewa Rembiałkowska, Adrien Rusch, Henrik G Smith, Dara A Stanley, Stuart P M Roberts, Werner Ulrich, Klaus Birkhofer

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Abstract

Context: Land-use intensification to increase yields is often detrimental to biodiversity undermining the provision of ecosystem services. However, it is questionable if ecosystem service providers contribute to ecological intensification by achieving the same or higher yields than conventional high-intensity agriculture.

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to disentangle the effects of local and landscape-scale land-use intensification on arthropod communities and their contribution to ecosystem services and crop yield. A set of meta-analytic structural equation models allowed us to assess direct and indirect relationships in the cascade from land use to yield.

Methods: We selected 37 datasets containing information on land use, community composition, levels of pollination and natural pest control services, and crop yield. We quantified functional diversity of communities by collecting trait information for three exemplary groups of service-providers: bees, ground beetles, and spiders.

Results: Local land-use intensification reduced the abundance of all arthropod groups. Spiders were the only group whose species richness was negatively related to a higher percentage of arable land in the landscape. High abundance of bees related positively to oilseed rape pollination and crop yields. In the models for the two predator groups, crop yield was strongly determined by land use, independent of the pest control services provided by natural enemies.

Conclusions: Our results suggest a potential for ecological intensification mediated by land-use change in crops where pollination benefits yield, but suggest more nuanced effects for pest control. Our study also calls for experiments on multiple taxonomic groups and ecosystem services that apply comparable methods at similar scales.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10980-025-02117-w.

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土地利用对作物产量的影响：欧洲农田节肢动物和相关生态系统服务的直接和间接作用。

背景：提高产量的土地利用集约化往往不利于生物多样性，从而破坏生态系统服务的提供。然而，生态系统服务提供者是否通过实现与传统高强度农业相同或更高的产量来促进生态集约化是值得怀疑的。目的：研究区域和景观尺度的土地利用集约化对节肢动物群落的影响及其对生态系统服务和作物产量的贡献。一组元分析结构方程模型使我们能够评估从土地利用到产量级联的直接和间接关系。方法：选取了包含土地利用、群落组成、授粉和自然虫害防治服务水平以及作物产量等信息的37个数据集。我们通过收集蜜蜂、地甲虫和蜘蛛这三种典型服务提供者的特征信息，量化了群落的功能多样性。结果：局部土地利用集约化降低了各节肢动物类群的丰度。蜘蛛是唯一一个物种丰富度与景观中较高可耕地比例负相关的类群。蜜蜂的高丰度与油菜授粉和作物产量呈正相关。在两个捕食者群体的模型中，作物产量在很大程度上取决于土地利用，而与天敌提供的害虫控制服务无关。结论：我们的研究结果表明，在授粉有益的作物中，土地利用变化可能介导生态集约化，但对害虫控制的影响更为微妙。我们的研究还要求对多个分类类群和生态系统服务进行实验，在类似的尺度上应用可比较的方法。补充信息：在线版本包含补充资料，可在10.1007/s10980-025-02117-w获得。

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Landscape Ecology 环境科学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

8.30

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

8-16 weeks

期刊介绍： Landscape Ecology is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses explicitly on the ecological understanding of spatial heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology draws together expertise from both biophysical and socioeconomic sciences to explore basic and applied research questions concerning the ecology, conservation, management, design/planning, and sustainability of landscapes as coupled human-environment systems. Landscape ecology studies are characterized by spatially explicit methods in which spatial attributes and arrangements of landscape elements are directly analyzed and related to ecological processes.