Search Results - "Kleijn, David"
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Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-04-2013)“…Rising demands for agricultural products will increase pressure to further intensify crop production, while negative environmental impacts have to be…”
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role of agri‐environment schemes in conservation and environmental management
Published in Conservation biology (01-08-2015)“…Over half of the European landscape is under agricultural management and has been for millennia. Many species and ecosystems of conservation concern in Europe…”
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Landscape-moderated biodiversity effects of agri-environmental management: a meta-analysis
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-06-2011)“…Agri-environmental management (AEM) is heralded as being key to biodiversity conservation on farmland, yet results of these schemes have been mixed, making…”
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Ecological Intensification: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-02-2019)“…There is worldwide concern about the environmental costs of conventional intensification of agriculture. Growing evidence suggests that ecological…”
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Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-09-2011)“…Biodiversity continues to decline, despite the implementation of international conservation conventions and measures. To counteract biodiversity loss, it is…”
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Pollination contribution to crop yield is often context-dependent: A review of experimental evidence
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-08-2019)“…•Soil properties and crop pests affect pollination contribution to yield.•Pollination and concomitant services often display synergistic relationships.•Crop…”
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From research to action: enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-10-2014)“…Recent evidence highlights the value of wild-insect species richness and abundance for crop pollination worldwide. Yet, deliberate physical importation of…”
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Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in The Netherlands
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-12-2014)“…Evidence for declining populations of both wild and managed bees has raised concern about a potential global pollination crisis. Strategies to mitigate bee…”
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Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (01-08-2012)“…Understanding how landscape characteristics affect biodiversity patterns and ecological processes at local and landscape scales is critical for mitigating…”
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Insect pollination is at least as important for marketable crop yield as plant quality in a seed crop
Published in Ecology letters (01-11-2018)“…The sustainability of agriculture can be improved by integrating management of ecosystem services, such as insect pollination, into farming practices. However,…”
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Extremely wet summer events enhance permafrost thaw for multiple years in Siberian tundra
Published in Nature communications (23-03-2022)“…Permafrost thaw can accelerate climate warming by releasing carbon from previously frozen soil in the form of greenhouse gases. Rainfall extremes have been…”
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Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2016)“…Mass‐flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi‐natural habitats (SNHs)…”
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How effective are European agri-environment schemes in conserving and promoting biodiversity?
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-12-2003)“…1. Increasing concern over the environmental impact of agriculture in Europe has led to the introduction of agri-environment schemes. These schemes compensate…”
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Local and landscape‐level floral resources explain effects of wildflower strips on wild bees across four European countries
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-10-2015)“…Growing evidence for declines in wild bees calls for the development and implementation of effective mitigation measures. Enhancing floral resources is a…”
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Temporal and spatial niche complementarity in sunflower pollinator communities and pollination function
Published in Basic and applied ecology (01-03-2023)“…One of the most invoked mechanisms mediating the positive effect of pollinator diversity on plant reproduction is pollinator's niche complementarity (i.e…”
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Potential tradeoffs between effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation, soil organic matter content and fertilizer application in raspberry production
Published in PloS one (18-07-2022)“…Ecological intensification has been proposed as an alternative paradigm for intensive agriculture to boost yield sustainably through utilizing ecosystem…”
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Diversity of flower-visiting bees in cereal fields: effects of farming system, landscape composition and regional context
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-02-2007)“…1. Agri-environment schemes promote organic farming in an attempt to reduce the negative effects of agricultural intensification on farmland biodiversity and…”
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Interactive effects of landscape context constrain the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-06-2012)“…1. Ecological theory predicts that the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management to enhance species richness at field scales will be the highest at…”
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Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe
Published in PloS one (08-01-2014)“…Declines in insect pollinators across Europe have raised concerns about the supply of pollination services to agriculture. Simultaneously, EU agricultural and…”
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Size and Sex-Dependent Shrinkage of Dutch Bees during One-and-a-Half Centuries of Land-Use Change
Published in PloS one (10-02-2016)“…Land-use change and global warming are important factors driving bee decline, but it is largely unknown whether these drivers have resulted in changes in the…”
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