Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security.

By R. Bommarco, D. Kleijn, S. Potts. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: An integrated assessment (2016, positive): “In recent years attention has focused on how agricultural practices might be made more sustainable (Bommarco et al., 2013; Godfray and Garnett, 2014; Tilman et al., 2011).”
Crop rotational diversity increases disease suppressive capacity of soil microbiomes (2018, background): “Further, recent attention is being paid to ecological intensification of farms (Tilman et al. 2011, Bommarco et al. 2013, Tittonell 2014, Garratt et al. 2018), and one of the promising specific management practices under this strategy is to diversify farms by rotating crops (Smukler et al. 2010,…”
Putting meaning back into “sustainable intensification” (2014, positive): “While some recent work addresses these issues by specifically focusing on agro-ecological intensification (eg Bommarco et al. 2013), a coherent framework to assess the long-term impacts of different types of intensification is presently lacking.”
System dynamics modeling for agricultural and natural resource management issues: Review of some past cases and forecasting future roles (2016, background): “In many circumstances, these problems could be characterized as complex, as they have many interacting and overlapping feedbacks, where a systems approach to problem solving has been increasingly promoted, including strategies for enhancing ecosystem services [21], agricultural intensification [22],”
Optimizing agri-environment schemes for biodiversity, ecosystem services or both? (2014, background): “Managing the provisioning of ecosystem services such as pollination and biological pest control may contribute to the ecological intensification of agriculture, where regulating and supporting ecosystem services replace environmentally harmful anthropogenic inputs (Bommarco et al., 2013).”
Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming (2018, background): “To alleviate such deleterious effects, an ecological intensification has been proposed that focuses on meeting standards of environmental quality while promoting and maintaining organisms that provide beneficial ecosystem services [7, 8].”
Pathways to Shape the Bioeconomy (2017, background): “This includes soil formation, carbon sequestration, nutrient recycling, genetic diversity, pest and weed suppression, chemical detoxification, water storage, groundwater filtration and purification, flood control, regulation of microclimates, and refuges for wildlife [36,44,51,52].”
Investing in the transition to sustainable agriculture (2016, background): “Therefore, when combined with significant policy and organizational support, more robust agroecological research programs appear to offer the most pragmatic approach for successfully fulfilling the human right to food while restoring environmental quality in the face of global climate change and rap”
Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar (2019, background): “A sustainable and low cost method to aid pest control and reduce crop losses is through biological control (Bommarco et al., 2013; Naranjo et al., 2015).”
Agronomic Efficiency of Animal-Derived Organic Fertilizers and Their Effects on Biology and Fertility of Soil: A Review (2021, background): “This may be achieved either by improving the farming systems or by increasing agricultural land use [4].”
Motivations for implementation of ecological compensation areas on Swiss lowland farms (2014, background): “Despite the acknowledgement of the importance of nature to production (Bommarco et al., 2013), some farmers don’t see inherent value in biodiversity but rather that it is “coupled with the points system”, which implies that nature protection is not seen as a synonym of biodiversity protection.”
The benefits of hedgerows for pollinators and natural enemies depends on hedge quality and landscape context (2017, background): “2 In order to address the increasing demand for food while simultaneously reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture, ecological intensification advocates the replacement of anthropogenic inputs and/or enhancement of crop productivity, by including regulating and supporting ecosystem service ”
Landscape‐level crop diversity benefits biological pest control (2018, background): “…or plant competition common to small- scale diversification practices (Lin, 2011), while enhancing global food security and resilience against climate change via functional redundancy of beneficial organisms (Aguilar et al., 2015; Bommarco et al., 2013; Lin, 2011; Schellhorn et al., 2015).”