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Joanna Savage
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK

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Journal article
Published: 01 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Sustainable intensification will require the development of new management systems to support global food demands, whilst conserving the integrity of ecosystem functions. Here, we test and identify management strategies to maintain or enhance agricultural production in grasslands whilst simultaneously supporting the provision of multiple ecosystem services. Over four years, we investigated how the establishment of three plant functional groups (grasses, legumes, and other flowering forbs), using different cultivation (minimum tillage and deep ploughing) and management (cutting, grazing and their intensity) techniques, affected provision and complementarity between key ecosystem services. These ecosystem services were agronomic production, pollination, pest control, food resources for farmland birds, and soil services. We found that the establishment of floristically diverse swards, particularly those containing grasses, legumes and forbs, maximised forage yield and quality, pollinator abundance, soil nitrogen, and bird food resources, as well as enhancing populations of natural predators of pests. Cutting management increased bird food resources and natural predators of pests without depleting other services considered. However, a single management solution to maximise the delivery of all ecosystem services is unlikely to exist, as trade-offs also occurred. Consequently, management options may need to be tailored to strategically support localised deficits in key ecosystem services.

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Joanna Savage; Ben Woodcock; James Bullock; Marek Nowakowski; Jeremy Tallowin; Richard Pywell. Management to Support Multiple Ecosystem Services from Productive Grasslands. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6263 .

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Joanna Savage, Ben Woodcock, James Bullock, Marek Nowakowski, Jeremy Tallowin, Richard Pywell. Management to Support Multiple Ecosystem Services from Productive Grasslands. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6263.

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Joanna Savage; Ben Woodcock; James Bullock; Marek Nowakowski; Jeremy Tallowin; Richard Pywell. 2021. "Management to Support Multiple Ecosystem Services from Productive Grasslands." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6263.

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Published: 20 January 2020 in Landscape Ecology
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Context Maximising insect pollination of mass-flowering crops is a widely-discussed approach to sustainable agriculture. Management actions can target landscape-scale semi-natural habitat, cropping patterns or field-scale features, but little is known about their relative effectiveness. Objective To test how landscape composition (area of mass-flowering crops and semi-natural habitat) and field-scale habitat (margins and hedges) affect pollinator species richness, abundance, and pollen deposition within crop fields. Methods We surveyed all flower visitors (Diptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera) in oilseed rape fields and related them to landscape composition and field features. Flower visitors were classified as bees, non-bee pollinators and brassica specialists. Total pollen deposition by individual taxa was estimated using single visit pollen deposition on stigmas combined with insect abundance. Results The area of mass-flowering crop had a negative effect on the species richness and abundance of bees in fields, but not other flower visitors. The area of semi-natural habitat in the surrounding landscape had a positive effect on bees, but was not as important as the area of mass-flowering crop. Taxonomic richness and abundance varied significantly between years for non-bee pollinators. Greater cover of mass-flowering crops surrounding fields had a negative effect on pollen deposition, but only when non-bee pollinator numbers were reduced. Conclusions Management choices that result in landscape homogenisation, such as large areas of mass-flowering crops, may reduce pollination services by reducing the numbers of bees visiting fields. Non-bee insect pollinators may buffer these landscape effects on pollen deposition, and management to support their populations should be considered.

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Rosalind F. Shaw; Benjamin B. Phillips; Toby Doyle; Judith K. Pell; John W. Redhead; Joanna Savage; Ben A. Woodcock; James M. Bullock; Juliet L. Osborne. Mass-flowering crops have a greater impact than semi-natural habitat on crop pollinators and pollen deposition. Landscape Ecology 2020, 35, 513 -527.

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Rosalind F. Shaw, Benjamin B. Phillips, Toby Doyle, Judith K. Pell, John W. Redhead, Joanna Savage, Ben A. Woodcock, James M. Bullock, Juliet L. Osborne. Mass-flowering crops have a greater impact than semi-natural habitat on crop pollinators and pollen deposition. Landscape Ecology. 2020; 35 (2):513-527.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Rosalind F. Shaw; Benjamin B. Phillips; Toby Doyle; Judith K. Pell; John W. Redhead; Joanna Savage; Ben A. Woodcock; James M. Bullock; Juliet L. Osborne. 2020. "Mass-flowering crops have a greater impact than semi-natural habitat on crop pollinators and pollen deposition." Landscape Ecology 35, no. 2: 513-527.