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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Garibaldi, Lucas A.
• Carvalheiro, Luísa G.
• Vaissière, Bernard E.
• Gemmill-Herren, Barbara
• Hipólito, Juliana
• Freitas, Breno M.
• Ngo, Hien T.
• Azzu, Nadine
• Sáez, Agustín
• Åström, Jens
• An, Jiandong
• Blochtein, Betina
• Buchori, Damayanti
• García, Fermín J. Chamorro
• da Silva, Fabiana Oliveira
• Devkota, Kedar
• de Fátima Ribeiro, Márcia
• Freitas, Leandro
• Gaglianone, Maria C.
• Goss, Maria
• Irshad, Mohammad
• Kasina, Muo
• Filho, Alípio J.S. Pacheco
• Kiill, Lucia H. Piedade
• Kwapong, Peter
• Parra, Guiomar Nates
• Pires, Carmen
• Pires, Viviane
• Rawal, Ranbeer S.
• Rizali, Akhmad
• Saravia, Antonio M.
• Veldtman, Ruan
• Viana, Blandina F.
• Witter, Sidia
• Zhang, Hong

Titel

Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2016-01, Vol.351 (6271), p.388-391

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ecological intensification, or the improvement of crop yield through enhancement of biodiversity, may be a sustainable pathway toward greater food supplies. Such sustainable increases may be especially important for the 2 billion people reliant on small farms, many of which are undernourished, yet we know little about the efficacy of this approach. Using a coordinated protocol across regions and crops, we quantify to what degree enhancing pollinator density and richness can improve yields on 344 fields from 33 pollinator-dependent crop systems in small and large farms from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For fields less than 2 hectares, we found that yield gaps could be closed by a median of 24% through higher flower-visitor density. For larger fields, such benefits only occurred at high flower-visitor richness. Worldwide, our study demonstrates that ecological intensification can create synchronous biodiversity and yield outcomes.