Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 673 - 689
• Main Authors: Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anikó, Espíndola, Anahí, Vanbergen, Adam J., Settele, Josef, Kremen, Claire, Dicks, Lynn V., Irwin, Rebecca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2017; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; Agricultural land; Agricultural policy; Agricultural practices; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Agrochemicals; Animals; Anthropogenic factors; Biodiversity; Biota; Conservation of Natural Resources; Conversion; Crop production; Crop rotation; Crops, Agricultural - physiology; diversification; Ecology; Ecosystems; Farming; Farms; Food; Food production; food security; grazing/mowing intensity; habitat loss; habitats; homogenization; Human influences; humans; Industrial management; Insecta - physiology; Intercropping; Land use; Land use management; Landscape; landscape fragmentation; landscapes; mass‐flowering crops; Monoculture; Nesting; Plant communities; Plant reproduction; Pollination; Pollinators; Review and Synthesis; Strategic management; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainable food systems; Sustainable production; wild pollinator diversity; landscape fragmentation; habitat loss; Crop production; wild pollinator diversity; food security; diversification; mass-flowering crops; grazing/mowing intensity

Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation. Conversion to agriculture is destroying and degrading semi‐natural ecosystems while conventional land‐use intensification (e.g. in...