The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects

By John E. Losey, Mace Vaughan. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Social Psychology

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Multi-scale effects of landscape complexity and crop management on pollen beetle parasitism rate (2011, background): “Natural pest control is considered as an important ecosystem service supporting crop production with a substantial estimated economic value (Costanza et al. 1997; Losey and Vaughan 2006).”
Shifting paradigms in the history of classical biological control (2018, background): “Some of these analyses quantify the ecosystem services attributable to naturally occurring biological control (Costanza et al. 1997; Losey and Vaughan 2006).”
A comparison of 3 types of green roof as habitats for arthropods (2013, background): “However, arthropods are a major component of ecosystems that span wild land to town centers (Wilson, 1987) and provide numerous ecosystem services, some of which exhibit a high economic value (Losey and Vaughan, 2006).”
Intraguild predation involving Harmonia axyridis: a review of current knowledge and future perspectives (2008, background): “As aphids are often pests in managed ecosystems these natural enemies provide a valuable pest management ecosystem service that can be manipulated within biological control strategies (e.g., Barbosa 1998; Gurr et al. 2004; Losey and Vaughan 2006; Powell and Pell 2007; Pell 2008).”
A Sustainable Agricultural Future Relies on the Transition to Organic Agroecological Pest Management (2018, background): “There is a known agricultural economic imperative to protect these insect species that provide ecosystem services like pollination, or predation of pests—the value of ecosystem services in the United States by wild insects alone (i.e., excluding honey bee colonies) tops $57 billion USD [101].”
The application of an ecosystem services framework to estimate the economic value of dung beetles to the U.K. cattle industry (2015, methodology): “Owing to a lack of robust data, and in agreement with Fincher (1981) and Losey and Vaughan (2006), we did not take into account the fact that anthelmintics that are toxic to dung beetles will also be toxic to dung-breeding pest flies.”
Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies (2010, methodology): “Studies suggest that insect predators and parasitoids account for approximately 33 per cent of natural pest control (Hawkins et al. 1999), therefore the value of pest control services attributed to insect natural enemies has been estimated at $4.5 billion per year (Losey & Vaughan 2006).”
An assessment of market-based approaches to providing ecosystem services on agricultural lands (2007, background): “For example, a recent estimate puts the net value of services from wild insects to U.S. agriculture at US$ 8 billion per year (Losey and Vaughan, 2006).”
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “Wild bees are estimated to provide at least 20% of pollination services in agricultural production (Losey and Vaughan, 2006).”
Experimental plant invasion reduces arthropod abundance and richness across multiple trophic levels (2010, background): “Arthropods influence ecosystems not only as important links in the food web, but also as pollinators, decomposers, and predators of pest insects (Losey and Vaughan 2006).”
Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects (2017, positive): “The most-studied ecosystems are croplands and consequently, the focus is placed on those ES that have a larger impact on the goods we receive from these managed ecosystems, such as pollination and biological control, two services with high economic impacts (Losey & Vaughan 2006).”
Natural land cover drives pollinator abundance and richness, leading to reductions in pollen limitation in cotton agroecosystems (2016, background): “…insects comprise an economically important group of biodiversity in agricultural systems as they provide ecosystem services critical to human survival; these organisms may act as natural enemies to crop pests or provide pollination services that benefit yield (Daily,1997; Losey and Vaughan, 2006).”