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Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms
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2016-01Registro en:
Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro; Carvalheiro, Luísa G.; Vaissière, Bernard E.; Gemmill Herren, Barbara; Hipólito, Juliana; et al.; Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Science; 351; 6271; 1-2016; 388-391
0036-8075
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro
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
Chamorro García, Fermín J.
Da Silva, Fabiana Oliveira
Devkota, Kedar
De Fátima Ribeiro, Márcia
Freitas, Leandro
Gaglianone, Maria C.
Goss, Maria
Irshad, Mohammad
Kasina, Muo
Pacheco Filho, Alípio J.S.
Piedade Kiill, Lucia H.
Kwapong, Peter
Parra, Guiomar Nates
Pires, Carmen
Pires, Viviane
Rawal, Ranbeer S.
Rizali, Akhmad
Saraiva, Antonio M.
Veldtman, Ruan
Viana, Blandina F.
Witter, Sidia
Zhang, Hong
Resumen
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.