Diversity, productivity and temporal stability in the economies of humans and nature

By David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, Clarence Lehman. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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Crop genetic diversity, farm productivity and the management of environmental risk in rainfed agriculture (2006, background): “1996; Lehman and Tilman, 2000) and that higher diversity systems give greater yields than lower ones (Tilman et al., 2005).”
Seeds for livelihood: Crop biodiversity and food production in Ethiopia (2010, background): “, 1996; Lehman and Tilman, 2000) and that higher diversity systems give greater yields than lower ones (Tilman et al., 2005).”
Ecosystem services and biodiversity in developing countries (2007, background): “There is a large body of research suggesting that natural ecosystem properties greatly depend on biodiversity and that the functioning of ecosystems is associated with biodiversity (Esteban et al. 1998; Hooper et al. 2004; Loreau et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 2005).”
Managing Increasing Environmental Risks Through Agro-Biodiversity and Agri-Environmental Policies (2010, unknown): “…at large in terms of positively inﬂuencing the 1 A third strategy, which is not explicitly considered here, is the use of risk-reducing inputs into the agricultural production process, such as e.g. irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, or enhanced (through breeding or genetic modiﬁcation) varieties.”
Rainfall Shocks, Resilience, and the Effects of Crop Biodiversity on Agroecosystem Productivity (2008, background): “In a series of plot experiments, plant biomass has been found to be an increasing function of diversity (Tilman and Downing 1994; Tilman, Wedin and Knops 1996), with higher diversity contributing to increases in the productivity of ecosystems (Tilman, Polasky, and Lehman 2005).”
User Acceptability of Sustainable Soil Fertility Technologies: Lessons from Farmers' Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Southern Africa (2007, background): “Total plant biomass is a measure of value and productivity and also a good proxy for carbon sequestration, pollution filtration, or other valued ecosystem services (Tilman et al., 2005).”
The Value of Biodiversity (2013, background): “understand the effect of species interactions on co-produced ecosystem services (Tilman et al., 2005; Eichner and Pethig, 2005; Brock and Xepapadeas, 2002; Perrings and Walker, 1997, 2005).”
Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned (2009, methodology): “For example, microeconomic tools have been used to study optimal foraging and competition for scarce resources (e.g., Tilman et al. 2005, Vermeij 2004).”
Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia (2012, background): “…even when diversity has a variance-enhancing effect.1 These findings also bolster ecologists’ earlier arguments that greater diversity is associated with increased biomass (Tilman and Downing 1994; Tilman, Wedin and Knops 1996) and productivity of ecosystems (Tilman, Polasky, and Lehman 2005).”
The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: An integrated assessment (2016, unknown): “Nonetheless a recurrent ﬁnding from empirical studies by economists is that genetic and species diversity on farms reduces the variability of crop yields and sometimes increases the mean yield (see notably Di Falco, 2012; Tilman et al., 2005).”