Insect effects on ecosystem services—Introduction
By T. Schowalter, J. Noriega, T. Tscharntke. 2018
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Abstract Natural ecosystems provide a variety of services on which humans, and other organisms, depend for survival and well-being. These ecosystem services can be categorized as provisioning (production of food, fiber, water and other resources), cultural (non-material benefits, such as recreation, spiritual and other aesthetic values), supporting (primary production, pollination, decomposition and soil formation necessary for resource production) and regulating (biological control and other feedback mechanisms that maintain relatively consistent delivery of services). Ecosystems also have been viewed as producing “disservices”, such as pests, litter, biological hazards such as diseases, animal attacks, allergenic and poisonous organisms, and geophysical hazards such as floods and storms. Many of these disservices are induced by management practices such as deforestation and concentration of agricultural crops. Insects affect ecosystem services in a variety of ways, positively and negatively. The papers in this special issue are focused on managing insects and ecosystems, and their interactions, in ways that ensure sustainability of ecosystem services and that minimize induction of disservices.
Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Light pollution is a driver of insect declines (2020, background): “, 2006) and provide important ecosystem services (Schowalter et al., 2018).”
- Insect declines and agroecosystems: does light pollution matter? (2018, background): “In agroecosystems, insects provide a variety of regulating and supporting services such as dung burial, nutrient cycling, conservation of soil structure and fertility, natural pest control and pollination (Schowalter et al., 2018).”
- Why we love bees and hate wasps (2018, background): “Insects provide vital ecological functions in the natural systems on which we depend: they pollinate our crops, regulate populations of arthropod pests and vectors of disease, decompose organic matter and till soils (Losey & Vaughan, 2012; Schowalter et al., 2018).”