Pollinator habitat enhancement: Benefits to other ecosystem services

Wratten, Stephen D.; Gillespie, Mark A.; Decourtye, Axel; Mader, Eric; Desneux, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2012.06.020

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“…Encouraging an interactive natural environment with agriculture, either with intercropping or incorporating natural and farming landscapes, has been identified as an opportunity for further research (Letoureau & Bothwell, 2008). Such practices maintain and sustain landscapes to support on-going production (Wratten et al, 2012;Woltz et al, 2012). For example, progressive farmers will keep some land as a natural landscape to support bees and predator insects.…”

Section: Environmental Viabilitymentioning

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The Characteristics of Five Food Production Systems and Their Implications for Sustainable Landscapes

Burdock¹,

Ampt²

2018

JAS

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This paper presents a classification of agricultural production systems that we believe characterises the complex interface between agriculture and the landscapes in which they are managed. Farmers have a choice about how they will manage their land, either to exclude inherent environmental complexity or to engage with it, mindful of risks associated with their approach. Adding to this complexity is the interplay between key natural, social, human, physical and financial resources in agricultural systems, highlighting the importance of extending sustainability principles to aspects of ecology, economics and culture. Decisions about agricultural systems hinge on a balance of productive outcomes, on sensitivity to the issues of environmental complexity, on economic grounds including the access to resources, and the socio-cultural needs of the community in which the farmer participates. Further, farm managers will make a choice that both satisfies and suffices (satisfices) against production, ecological efficiencies and resilience outcomes when choosing which food production system to adopt. In this paper, these complexities are analysed against five different agricultural systems on an ecological continuum; from biologically simple industrial systems that minimise interaction with the natural environment, to ecologically complex systems that are closely engaged with their environment. Production viability is a necessary consideration to maintain farming operations but is not sufficient if operational capacity is to be achieved in the long term. This analysis finds that it is also necessary to work with ecological, economic and social complexities, satisficing against productivity, ecological efficiency and inherit system resilience. No one particular farming systems is appropriate in all cases. The farmer's choice may apply a mix of the five different agricultural systems described, allowing for the blending of these attributes in order to sustain rural landscapes.

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Section: Environmental Viabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Characteristics of Five Food Production Systems and Their Implications for Sustainable Landscapes

Burdock¹,

Ampt²

2018

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“…In addition, grassland set-asides and crop rotations provide habitat for a diversity of pollinators, like bumblebees [22]. This diversity further improves the ecosystem services of pollination and can actually improve agricultural productivity [36].…”

Section: Pollinationmentioning

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Integration of Agriculture and Wildlife Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Westham Island, British Columbia, Canada

Yuan¹,

Wilson²,

Lavkulich³

2017

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There is concern regarding the loss of ecosystem goods and services as a result of land use changes such as the expansion and intensification of agricultural activities. Assessments of these interactions require innovative analyses that combine qualitative and quantitative economic analyses. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework was applied to a peri-urban region in British Columbia, Canada to assess the effects of the integration of agricultural programs and the maintenance of waterfowl habitat located on the Pacific Flyway. The Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust, a non-governmental organization, has implemented several activities to enhance ecosystem goods and services by cooperative programs among the agricultural community and wildlife interests. The successful collaborative framework has resulted in enhanced soil quality, increased biodiversity, and the maintenance of valuable agriculture and waterfowl habitat.

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“…Chemical pest control has to be reduced owing to its unwanted effects on non-targeted organisms (Biondi et al, 2012a(Biondi et al, , 2012bDesneux et al, 2007;Han et al, 2010) and pest resistance (Liang et al, 2012;Shad et al, 2012). Thus, alternative and sustainable long-lasting pest control methods are urgently needed to enhance the activity of benefi cial organisms (Jonsson et al, 2008;Wratten et al, 2012).…”

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Introducing the term 'Biocontrol Plants' for integrated pest management

Bresch

Poncet

Desneux

2014

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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Studies of interactions between crops, additional plants, pests and benefi cial organisms already exist as well as studies of natural enemy preference, dispersal, and abundance.However, these studies focus on tri-trophic interactions from an "arthropod" point of view. We think that in order to optimize crop protection methods we need to understand the effects that plant structures have on the various arthropods and on subsequent tri-trophic interactions.Although studies and reviews describing the role of secondary plants in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) exist, to date a general term which encompasses all plants added to a cropping system with the aim of enhancing IPM strategies has yet to be formulated. Therefore, we suggest a new term, "biocontrol plants", which we defi ne as plants that are intentionally added to a crop system with the aim of enhancing crop productivity through pest attraction and/or pest regulation; a term that will promote the use of biocontrol services, and can ultimately lead to an increase in the sustainability of cropping systems.

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Pollinator habitat enhancement: Benefits to other ecosystem services

Cited by 373 publications

References 142 publications

The Characteristics of Five Food Production Systems and Their Implications for Sustainable Landscapes

The Characteristics of Five Food Production Systems and Their Implications for Sustainable Landscapes

Integration of Agriculture and Wildlife Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Westham Island, British Columbia, Canada

Introducing the term 'Biocontrol Plants' for integrated pest management

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