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W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA

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Journal article
Published: 28 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The societal and economic benefits of ecosystem services are both immense and multi-faceted. To holistically quantify the contribution of pollinators to agriculture requires measuring multiple indices of crop production beyond crop yield. Here, we conduct a field-based hand pollination experiment to measure the effects of self and outcross pollen on fiber yield and quality in conventionally managed cotton crops. First, we determine how different pollination treatments affect specific indices of fiber yield and fiber quality, including fiber length and fineness. Second, we investigate the suggested tradeoff between fiber yield and quality. We find that flowers receiving outcross pollen produce larger, heavier bolls than either self-crossed or non-crossed flowers. However, contrary to expectation, flowers of different treatments are indistinguishable in terms of fiber quality. Overall, we find that pollination treatment has no discernable effect on either fiber length or fiber fineness. Understanding the contribution of ecosystem services across multiple axes provides growers with information concerning potential tradeoffs or synergies, and offers insight into management decisions.

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Sarah Cusser; Shalene Jha. No Tradeoff in Fiber Quality with Increased Cotton Yield Due to Outcross Pollination. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6079 .

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Sarah Cusser, Shalene Jha. No Tradeoff in Fiber Quality with Increased Cotton Yield Due to Outcross Pollination. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6079.

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Sarah Cusser; Shalene Jha. 2021. "No Tradeoff in Fiber Quality with Increased Cotton Yield Due to Outcross Pollination." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6079.

Journal article
Published: 26 March 2021 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
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While greater biodiversity is often assumed to predict greater ecological function, a number of recent meta-analyses have challenged this notion, arguing instead that a few dominant species can contribute the majority of ecological function provided in a given ecosystem. In the case of mobile ecosystem service providers, such as pollinating insects, the abundance and diversity of the most common taxa (e.g. bees) is often assumed to be the primary driver of service provision across ecosystems. This assumption persists despite the presence and possible contribution of less-dominant service-providing taxa. In this study, we investigate the taxonomic contribution of different pollinator orders to multiple axes of functional complementarity in US Gulf Coast cotton agroecosystems. We find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, non-bee pollinators, including butterflies and flies, contribute significantly to pollination function and expand the multidimensional functional space of visitation by more than 50%. Specifically, butterflies and flies provide critical functional complementarity by visiting spatially and temporally unique flowers that otherwise may have gone without pollination service. We estimate that butterflies and flies together may contribute as much as 120 million USD (of the 1.8 billion USD) per annum of cotton production in the state of Texas. We conclude that conservation efforts should target not only dominant service providers, but also those that complement their service, such as butterflies and flies, to maintain functional breadth and resulting crop profitability in the face of dynamic future agricultural scenarios.

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Sarah Cusser; Nick M. Haddad; Shalene Jha. Unexpected functional complementarity from non-bee pollinators enhances cotton yield. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2021, 314, 107415 .

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Sarah Cusser, Nick M. Haddad, Shalene Jha. Unexpected functional complementarity from non-bee pollinators enhances cotton yield. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 2021; 314 ():107415.

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Sarah Cusser; Nick M. Haddad; Shalene Jha. 2021. "Unexpected functional complementarity from non-bee pollinators enhances cotton yield." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 314, no. : 107415.

Conference paper
Published: 17 March 2021 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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While an increasing number of studies indicate that the range, diversity and abundance of many wild pollinators has declined, the global area of pollinator-dependent crops has significantly increased over the last few decades. Crop pollination studies to date have mainly focused on either identifying different guilds pollinating various crops, or on factors driving spatial changes and turnover observed in these communities. The mechanisms driving temporal stability for ecosystem functioning and services, however, remain poorly understood. Our study quantifies temporal variability observed in crop pollinators in 21 different crops across multiple years at a global scale. Using data from 43 studies from six continents, we show that (i) higher pollinator diversity confers greater inter-annual stability in pollinator communities, (ii) temporal variation observed in pollinator abundance is primarily driven by the three-most dominant species, and (iii) crops in tropical regions demonstrate higher inter-annual variability in pollinator species richness than crops in temperate regions. We highlight the importance of recognizing wild pollinator diversity in agricultural landscapes to stabilize pollinator persistence across years to protect both biodiversity and crop pollination services. Short-term agricultural management practices aimed at dominant species for stabilizing pollination services need to be considered alongside longer term conservation goals focussed on maintaining and facilitating biodiversity to confer ecological stability.

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Deepa Senapathi; Jochen Fründ; Matthias Albrecht; Michael P. D. Garratt; David Kleijn; Brian J. Pickles; Simon G. Potts; Jiandong An; Georg K. S. Andersson; Svenja Bänsch; Parthiba Basu; Faye Benjamin; Antonio Diego M. Bezerra; Ritam Bhattacharya; Jacobus C. Biesmeijer; Brett Blaauw; Eleanor J. Blitzer; Claire A. Brittain; Luísa G. Carvalheiro; Daniel P. Cariveau; Pushan Chakraborty; Arnob Chatterjee; Soumik Chatterjee; Sarah Cusser; Bryan N. Danforth; Erika Degani; Breno M. Freitas; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Benoit Geslin; G. Arjen de Groot; Tina Harrison; Brad Howlett; Rufus Isaacs; Shalene Jha; Björn Kristian Klatt; Kristin Krewenka; Samuel Leigh; Sandra A. M. Lindström; Yael Mandelik; Megan McKerchar; Mia Park; Gideon Pisanty; Romina Rader; Menno Reemer; Maj Rundlöf; Barbara Smith; Henrik G. Smith; Patrícia Nunes Silva; Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter; Teja Tscharntke; Sean Webber; Duncan B. Westbury; Catrin Westphal; Jennifer B. Wickens; Victoria J. Wickens; Rachael Winfree; Hong Zhang; Alexandra-Maria Klein. Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2021, 288, 20210212 .

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Deepa Senapathi, Jochen Fründ, Matthias Albrecht, Michael P. D. Garratt, David Kleijn, Brian J. Pickles, Simon G. Potts, Jiandong An, Georg K. S. Andersson, Svenja Bänsch, Parthiba Basu, Faye Benjamin, Antonio Diego M. Bezerra, Ritam Bhattacharya, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Brett Blaauw, Eleanor J. Blitzer, Claire A. Brittain, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Daniel P. Cariveau, Pushan Chakraborty, Arnob Chatterjee, Soumik Chatterjee, Sarah Cusser, Bryan N. Danforth, Erika Degani, Breno M. Freitas, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Benoit Geslin, G. Arjen de Groot, Tina Harrison, Brad Howlett, Rufus Isaacs, Shalene Jha, Björn Kristian Klatt, Kristin Krewenka, Samuel Leigh, Sandra A. M. Lindström, Yael Mandelik, Megan McKerchar, Mia Park, Gideon Pisanty, Romina Rader, Menno Reemer, Maj Rundlöf, Barbara Smith, Henrik G. Smith, Patrícia Nunes Silva, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke, Sean Webber, Duncan B. Westbury, Catrin Westphal, Jennifer B. Wickens, Victoria J. Wickens, Rachael Winfree, Hong Zhang, Alexandra-Maria Klein. Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2021; 288 (1947):20210212.

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Deepa Senapathi; Jochen Fründ; Matthias Albrecht; Michael P. D. Garratt; David Kleijn; Brian J. Pickles; Simon G. Potts; Jiandong An; Georg K. S. Andersson; Svenja Bänsch; Parthiba Basu; Faye Benjamin; Antonio Diego M. Bezerra; Ritam Bhattacharya; Jacobus C. Biesmeijer; Brett Blaauw; Eleanor J. Blitzer; Claire A. Brittain; Luísa G. Carvalheiro; Daniel P. Cariveau; Pushan Chakraborty; Arnob Chatterjee; Soumik Chatterjee; Sarah Cusser; Bryan N. Danforth; Erika Degani; Breno M. Freitas; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Benoit Geslin; G. Arjen de Groot; Tina Harrison; Brad Howlett; Rufus Isaacs; Shalene Jha; Björn Kristian Klatt; Kristin Krewenka; Samuel Leigh; Sandra A. M. Lindström; Yael Mandelik; Megan McKerchar; Mia Park; Gideon Pisanty; Romina Rader; Menno Reemer; Maj Rundlöf; Barbara Smith; Henrik G. Smith; Patrícia Nunes Silva; Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter; Teja Tscharntke; Sean Webber; Duncan B. Westbury; Catrin Westphal; Jennifer B. Wickens; Victoria J. Wickens; Rachael Winfree; Hong Zhang; Alexandra-Maria Klein. 2021. "Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288, no. 1947: 20210212.

Review and synthesis
Published: 22 February 2021 in Ecology Letters
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We utilise the wealth of data accessible through the 40‐year‐old Long‐Term Ecological Research (LTER) network to ask if aspects of the study environment or taxa alter the duration of research necessary to detect consistent results. To do this, we use a moving‐window algorithm. We limit our analysis to long‐term (> 10 year) press experiments recording organismal abundance. We find that studies conducted in dynamic abiotic environments need longer periods of study to reach consistent results, as compared to those conducted in more moderated environments. Studies of plants were more often characterised by spurious results than those on animals. Nearly half of the studies we investigated required 10 years or longer to become consistent, where all significant trends agreed in direction, and four studies (of 100) required longer than 20 years. Here, we champion the importance of long‐term data and bolster the value of multi‐decadal experiments in understanding, explaining and predicting long‐term trends.

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Sarah Cusser; Jackson Helms; Christie A. Bahlai; Nick M. Haddad. How long do population level field experiments need to be? Utilising data from the 40‐year‐old LTER network. Ecology Letters 2021, 24, 1103 -1111.

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Sarah Cusser, Jackson Helms, Christie A. Bahlai, Nick M. Haddad. How long do population level field experiments need to be? Utilising data from the 40‐year‐old LTER network. Ecology Letters. 2021; 24 (5):1103-1111.

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Sarah Cusser; Jackson Helms; Christie A. Bahlai; Nick M. Haddad. 2021. "How long do population level field experiments need to be? Utilising data from the 40‐year‐old LTER network." Ecology Letters 24, no. 5: 1103-1111.

Preprint content
Published: 08 July 2020
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A core issue in temporal ecology is the concept of trajectory—that is, when can ecologists have reasonable assurance that they know where a system is going? In this paper, we describe a non-random resampling method to directly address the temporal aspects of scaling ecological observations by leveraging existing data. Findings from long-term research sites have been hugely influential in ecology because of their unprecedented longitudinal perspective, yet short-term studies more consistent with typical grant cycles and graduate programs are still the norm. We use long-term insights to create ‘broken windows,’ that is, reanalyze long-term studies from short-term observational perspectives to examine discontinuities in trends at differing temporal scales. The broken window algorithm connects our observations between the short-term and the long-term with an automated, systematic resampling approach: in short, we repeatedly ‘sample’ moving windows of data from existing long-term time series, and analyze these sampled data as if they represented the entire dataset. We then compile typical statistics used to describe the relationship in the sampled data, through repeated samplings, and then use these derived data to gain insights to the questions: 1) how often are the trends observed in short-term data misleading, and 2) can characteristics of these trends be used to predict our likelihood of being misled? We develop a systematic resampling approach, the ‘broken_window algorithm, and illustrate its utility with a case study of firefly observations produced at the Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Site (KBS LTER). Through a variety of visualizations, summary statistics, and downstream analyses, we provide a standardized approach to evaluating the trajectory of a system, the amount of observation required to find a meaningful trajectory in similar systems, and a means of evaluating our confidence in our conclusions. Highlights Trends identified in short-term ecology studies can be misleading. Non-random resampling can show how prone different systems are to misleading trends The Broken Window algorithm is a new tool to help synthesize temporal data This tool helps to understand how much data is needed for forecasting to be reliable It can also be used to quantify how likely it is that an observed trend is spurious.

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Christie A. Bahlai; Easton R. White; Julia D. Perrone; Sarah Cusser; Kaitlin Stack Whitney. The Broken Window: An algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes. 2020, 1 .

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Christie A. Bahlai, Easton R. White, Julia D. Perrone, Sarah Cusser, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. The Broken Window: An algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes. . 2020; ():1.

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Christie A. Bahlai; Easton R. White; Julia D. Perrone; Sarah Cusser; Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2020. "The Broken Window: An algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes." , no. : 1.

Article
Published: 07 July 2020 in Urban Ecosystems
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The world is increasingly urban, and urbanization alters the abundance and distribution of resources important to mutualist pollinators. Pollinators require distinct and diverse resources throughout their life cycle, including larval habitat and adult food resources. However, the relationship among urbanization, pollinator resource distribution, pollinator abundance, and pollination service provision are uncertain. Here, we test whether the presence of rat carrion facilitates pollination service to a non-native plant, Ammi majus L. (Apiaceae), by bolstering the pollinator community across an urban gradient. We show that carrion increased pollinator abundance and service provision to focal plants, especially in densely urban landscapes. Specifically, a paired experimental design revealed that in the presence of rat carrion, pollinator abundance increased by more than two-fold and plants received 11.2% greater pollination service across landscapes. Those plants situated in highly urban contexts received the greatest benefits from carrion with the largest abundance of pollinators and highest proportion of viable seed set. We demonstrate how human development facilitates the reproduction of a non-native plant by altering the pollinator community and pollination service provided across an urban gradient. Our findings have both basic and applied implications. First, we show that mutualistic species with complex life histories can provide conduits between various levels of ecosystem processes. Second, we suggest that the removal or reduction of larval habitat may serve as a tool in the management of non-native Apiaceae plants in the upper Midwest.

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Sarah Cusser; Jennifer L. Pechal; Nick M. Haddad. Carrion increases pollination service across an urban gradient. Urban Ecosystems 2020, 1 -8.

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Sarah Cusser, Jennifer L. Pechal, Nick M. Haddad. Carrion increases pollination service across an urban gradient. Urban Ecosystems. 2020; ():1-8.

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Sarah Cusser; Jennifer L. Pechal; Nick M. Haddad. 2020. "Carrion increases pollination service across an urban gradient." Urban Ecosystems , no. : 1-8.

Primary research article
Published: 16 March 2020 in Global Change Biology
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Agricultural management recommendations based on short‐term studies can produce findings inconsistent with long‐term reality. Here, we test the long‐term environmental sustainability and profitability of continuous no‐till agriculture on yield, soil water availability, and N2O fluxes. Using a moving window approach, we investigate the development and stability of several attributes of continuous no‐till as compared to conventional till agriculture over a 29‐year period at a site in the upper Midwest, US. Over a decade is needed to detect the consistent effects of no‐till. Both crop yield and soil water availability required 15 years or longer to generate patterns consistent with 29‐year trends. Only marginal trends for N2O fluxes appeared in this period. Relative profitability analysis suggests that after initial implementation, 86% of periods between 10 and 29 years recuperated the initial expense of no‐till implementation, with the probability of higher relative profit increasing with longevity. Importantly, statistically significant but misleading short‐term trends appeared in more than 20% of the periods examined. Results underscore the importance of decadal and longer studies for revealing consistent dynamics and emergent outcomes of no‐till agriculture, shown to be beneficial in the long term.

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Sarah Cusser; Christie Bahlai; Scott M. Swinton; G. Philip Robertson; Nick M. Haddad. Long‐term research avoids spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no‐till. Global Change Biology 2020, 26, 3715 -3725.

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Sarah Cusser, Christie Bahlai, Scott M. Swinton, G. Philip Robertson, Nick M. Haddad. Long‐term research avoids spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no‐till. Global Change Biology. 2020; 26 (6):3715-3725.

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Sarah Cusser; Christie Bahlai; Scott M. Swinton; G. Philip Robertson; Nick M. Haddad. 2020. "Long‐term research avoids spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no‐till." Global Change Biology 26, no. 6: 3715-3725.

Journal article
Published: 30 October 2019 in Oecologia
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An animal’s diet contributes to its survival and reproduction. Variation in diet can alter the structure of community-level consumer-resource networks, with implications for ecological function. However, much remains unknown about the underlying drivers of diet breadth. Here we use a network approach to understand how consumer diet changes in response to local and landscape context and how these patterns compare between closely-related consumer species. We conducted field surveys to build 36 quantitative plant-pollinator networks using observation-based and pollen-based records of visitation across the gulf-coast cotton growing region of Texas, US. We focused on two key cotton pollinator species in the region: the social European honey bee, Apis mellifera, and the solitary native long-horned bee, Melissodes tepaneca. We demonstrate that diet breadth is highly context-dependent. Specifically, local factors better explain patterns of diet than regional factors for both species, but A. mellifera and M. tepaneca respond to local factors with contrasting patterns. Despite being collected directly from cotton blooms, both species exhibit significant preferences for non-cotton pollen, indicating a propensity to spend substantial effort foraging on remnant vegetation despite the rarity of these patches in the intensely managed cotton agroecosystem. Overall, our results demonstrate that diet is highly context- and species-dependent and thus an understanding of both factors is key for evaluating the conservation of important cotton pollinators.

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Sarah Cusser; John L. Neff; Shalene Jha. Landscape context differentially drives diet breadth for two key pollinator species. Oecologia 2019, 191, 873 -886.

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Sarah Cusser, John L. Neff, Shalene Jha. Landscape context differentially drives diet breadth for two key pollinator species. Oecologia. 2019; 191 (4):873-886.

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Sarah Cusser; John L. Neff; Shalene Jha. 2019. "Landscape context differentially drives diet breadth for two key pollinator species." Oecologia 191, no. 4: 873-886.

Preprint
Published: 08 October 2019
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Agricultural management recommendations based on short-term studies can produce findings inconsistent with long-term reality. Here, we test the long-term relative profitability and environmental sustainability of continuous no-till agriculture practices on crop yield, soil moisture, and N2O fluxes. Using a moving window approach, we investigate the development and stability of several attributes of continuous no-till as compared to conventional till agriculture over a 29-year period at a site in the upper Midwest, U.S. We find that over a decade is needed to detect the consistent benefits of no-till on important attributes at this site. Both crop yield and soil moisture required periods 15 years or longer to generate patterns consistent with 29-year trends. Only marginally significant trends for N2O fluxes appeared in this period. Importantly, significant but misleading short-term trends appeared in more than 20% of the periods examined. Relative profitability analysis suggests that 10 years after initial implementation, 86% of periods recuperated the initial expense of no-till implementation, with the probability of higher relative profit increasing with longevity. Results underscore the essential importance of decade and longer studies for revealing the long-term dynamics and emergent outcomes of agricultural practices for different sustainability attributes and are consistent with recommendations to support the long-term adoption of no-till management.GRAPHICAL ABSTRACTHIGHLIGHTSWe test long-term effects of no-till on yield, soil moisture, and N2O fluxesWe examine 29 years of data with a moving window and relative profitability methodIt takes at least a decade to detect consistent benefits of no-tillShorter studies can produce significant but misleading findingsLong studies are essential to reveal the dynamics of agricultural management

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Sarah Cusser; Christie Bahlai; Scott M. Swinton; G. Philip Robertson; Nick M. Haddad. Long-term research needed to avoid spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no-till. 2019, 788240 .

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Sarah Cusser, Christie Bahlai, Scott M. Swinton, G. Philip Robertson, Nick M. Haddad. Long-term research needed to avoid spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no-till. . 2019; ():788240.

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Sarah Cusser; Christie Bahlai; Scott M. Swinton; G. Philip Robertson; Nick M. Haddad. 2019. "Long-term research needed to avoid spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no-till." , no. : 788240.

Research article
Published: 11 July 2019 in Landscape Ecology
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Bees are the most important pollinators of crops worldwide. For most bees, patches of semi-natural habitat within or adjacent to crops can provide important nesting and food resources. Despite this, land cover change is rapidly reducing the abundance of semi-natural habitat within agroecological landscapes, with potentially negative consequences for bee communities and the services they provide. Identify how the availability of semi-natural habitat impacts bee communities across biogeographic regions, which may reveal commonalities and key governing principles that transcend a single region or taxa. We analyze and compare the drivers of bee community composition in cotton fields within Brazil and the U.S. to reveal how land cover and land cover change impact bee community composition across these two regions. We show that the most critical factors impacting bee communities in cotton agroecosystems are the same in Brazil and the U.S.: bee abundance increases with cotton bloom density and the abundance of semi-natural habitat. Further, the loss of semi-natural habitat over a 5-year period negatively impacts bee abundance in both agroecosystems. Given the importance of bee abundance for the provision of pollination service in cotton plants, our findings highlight the significance of small semi-natural habitat fragments in supporting key ecosystem service providers for both tropical and temperate cotton agroecological systems. We underscore the important role that local land managers play in biodiversity conservation, and the potential contribution they can make to pollination provision by supporting agricultural landscapes that conserve fragments of semi-natural habitat.

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Sarah Cusser; Carolina Grando; Maria Imaculada Zucchi; Margarita M. López-Uribe; Nathaniel S. Pope; Kimberly Ballare; Danielle Luna-Lucena; Eduardo A. B. Almeida; John L. Neff; Kenneth Young; Shalene Jha. Small but critical: semi-natural habitat fragments promote bee abundance in cotton agroecosystems across both Brazil and the United States. Landscape Ecology 2019, 34, 1825 -1836.

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Sarah Cusser, Carolina Grando, Maria Imaculada Zucchi, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Nathaniel S. Pope, Kimberly Ballare, Danielle Luna-Lucena, Eduardo A. B. Almeida, John L. Neff, Kenneth Young, Shalene Jha. Small but critical: semi-natural habitat fragments promote bee abundance in cotton agroecosystems across both Brazil and the United States. Landscape Ecology. 2019; 34 (7):1825-1836.

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Sarah Cusser; Carolina Grando; Maria Imaculada Zucchi; Margarita M. López-Uribe; Nathaniel S. Pope; Kimberly Ballare; Danielle Luna-Lucena; Eduardo A. B. Almeida; John L. Neff; Kenneth Young; Shalene Jha. 2019. "Small but critical: semi-natural habitat fragments promote bee abundance in cotton agroecosystems across both Brazil and the United States." Landscape Ecology 34, no. 7: 1825-1836.

Preprint content
Published: 20 February 2019
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Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related ecosystem services can be maintained by few abundant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 crop systems, we partition the relative importance of abundance and species richness for pollination, biological pest control and final yields in the context of on-going land-use change. Pollinator and enemy richness directly supported ecosystem services independent of abundance. Up to 50% of the negative effects of landscape simplification on ecosystem services was due to richness losses of service-providing organisms, with negative consequences for crop yields. Maintaining the biodiversity of ecosystem service providers is therefore vital to sustain the flow of key agroecosystem benefits to society.

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Matteo Dainese; Emily A. Martin; Marcelo A. Aizen; Matthias Albrecht; Ignasi Bartomeus; Riccardo Bommarco; Luisa G. Carvalheiro; Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Vesna Gagic; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Jaboury Ghazoul; Heather Grab; Mattias Jonsson; Daniel S. Karp; Christina M. Kennedy; David Kleijn; Claire Kremen; Douglas A. Landis; Deborah K. Letourneau; Lorenzo Marini; Katja Poveda; Romina Rader; Henrik G. Smith; Teja Tscharntke; Georg K.S. Andersson; Isabelle Badenhausser; Svenja Baensch; Antonio Diego M. Bezerra; Felix J.J.A. Bianchi; Virginie Boreux; Vincent Bretagnolle; Berta Caballero-Lopez; Pablo Cavigliasso; Aleksandar Cetkovic; Natacha P. Chacoff; Alice Classen; Sarah Cusser; Felipe D. Da Silva E Silva; G. Arjen De Groot; Jan H. Dudenhoffer; Johan Ekroos; Thijs Fijen; Pierre Franck; Breno M. Freitas; Michael P.D. Garratt; Claudio Gratton; Juanhipolito Hipolito; Andrea Holzschuh; Lauren Hunt; Aaron L. Iverson; Shalene Jha; Tamar Keasar; Tania N. Kim; Miriam Kishinevsky; Bjorn K. Klatt; Alexandra-Maria Klein; Kristin M. Krewenka; Smitha Krishnan; Ashley E. Larsen; Claire Lavigne; Heidi Liere; Bea Maas; Rachel E. Mallinger; Eliana Martinez Pachon; Alejandra Martinez-Salinas; Timothy D. Meehan; Matthew G.E. Mitchell; Gonzalo A.R. Molina; Maike Nesper; Lovisa Nilsson; Megan E. O’Rourke; Marcell K. Peters; Milan Plecas; Simon G. Potts; Davi De L. Ramos; Jay A. Rosenheim; Maj Rundlof; Adrien Rusch; Agustin Saez; Jeroen Scheper; Matthias Schleuning; Julia Schmack; Amber R. Sciligo; Colleen Seymour; Dara A. Stanley; Rebecca Stewart; Jane C. Stout; Louis Sutter; Mayura B. Takada; Hisatomo Taki; Giovanni Tamburini; Matthias Tschumi; Blandina F. Viana; Catrin Westphal; Bryony K. Willcox; Stephen D. Wratten; Akira Yoshioka; Carlos Zaragoza-Trello; Wei Zhang; Yi Zou; Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter; Heide Leire; Eliana Martinez. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. 2019, 554170 .

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Matteo Dainese, Emily A. Martin, Marcelo A. Aizen, Matthias Albrecht, Ignasi Bartomeus, Riccardo Bommarco, Luisa G. Carvalheiro, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Vesna Gagic, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Jaboury Ghazoul, Heather Grab, Mattias Jonsson, Daniel S. Karp, Christina M. Kennedy, David Kleijn, Claire Kremen, Douglas A. Landis, Deborah K. Letourneau, Lorenzo Marini, Katja Poveda, Romina Rader, Henrik G. Smith, Teja Tscharntke, Georg K.S. Andersson, Isabelle Badenhausser, Svenja Baensch, Antonio Diego M. Bezerra, Felix J.J.A. Bianchi, Virginie Boreux, Vincent Bretagnolle, Berta Caballero-Lopez, Pablo Cavigliasso, Aleksandar Cetkovic, Natacha P. Chacoff, Alice Classen, Sarah Cusser, Felipe D. Da Silva E Silva, G. Arjen De Groot, Jan H. Dudenhoffer, Johan Ekroos, Thijs Fijen, Pierre Franck, Breno M. Freitas, Michael P.D. Garratt, Claudio Gratton, Juanhipolito Hipolito, Andrea Holzschuh, Lauren Hunt, Aaron L. Iverson, Shalene Jha, Tamar Keasar, Tania N. Kim, Miriam Kishinevsky, Bjorn K. Klatt, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Kristin M. Krewenka, Smitha Krishnan, Ashley E. Larsen, Claire Lavigne, Heidi Liere, Bea Maas, Rachel E. Mallinger, Eliana Martinez Pachon, Alejandra Martinez-Salinas, Timothy D. Meehan, Matthew G.E. Mitchell, Gonzalo A.R. Molina, Maike Nesper, Lovisa Nilsson, Megan E. O’Rourke, Marcell K. Peters, Milan Plecas, Simon G. Potts, Davi De L. Ramos, Jay A. Rosenheim, Maj Rundlof, Adrien Rusch, Agustin Saez, Jeroen Scheper, Matthias Schleuning, Julia Schmack, Amber R. Sciligo, Colleen Seymour, Dara A. Stanley, Rebecca Stewart, Jane C. Stout, Louis Sutter, Mayura B. Takada, Hisatomo Taki, Giovanni Tamburini, Matthias Tschumi, Blandina F. Viana, Catrin Westphal, Bryony K. Willcox, Stephen D. Wratten, Akira Yoshioka, Carlos Zaragoza-Trello, Wei Zhang, Yi Zou, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Heide Leire, Eliana Martinez. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. . 2019; ():554170.

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Matteo Dainese; Emily A. Martin; Marcelo A. Aizen; Matthias Albrecht; Ignasi Bartomeus; Riccardo Bommarco; Luisa G. Carvalheiro; Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer; Vesna Gagic; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Jaboury Ghazoul; Heather Grab; Mattias Jonsson; Daniel S. Karp; Christina M. Kennedy; David Kleijn; Claire Kremen; Douglas A. Landis; Deborah K. Letourneau; Lorenzo Marini; Katja Poveda; Romina Rader; Henrik G. Smith; Teja Tscharntke; Georg K.S. Andersson; Isabelle Badenhausser; Svenja Baensch; Antonio Diego M. Bezerra; Felix J.J.A. Bianchi; Virginie Boreux; Vincent Bretagnolle; Berta Caballero-Lopez; Pablo Cavigliasso; Aleksandar Cetkovic; Natacha P. Chacoff; Alice Classen; Sarah Cusser; Felipe D. Da Silva E Silva; G. Arjen De Groot; Jan H. Dudenhoffer; Johan Ekroos; Thijs Fijen; Pierre Franck; Breno M. Freitas; Michael P.D. Garratt; Claudio Gratton; Juanhipolito Hipolito; Andrea Holzschuh; Lauren Hunt; Aaron L. Iverson; Shalene Jha; Tamar Keasar; Tania N. Kim; Miriam Kishinevsky; Bjorn K. Klatt; Alexandra-Maria Klein; Kristin M. Krewenka; Smitha Krishnan; Ashley E. Larsen; Claire Lavigne; Heidi Liere; Bea Maas; Rachel E. Mallinger; Eliana Martinez Pachon; Alejandra Martinez-Salinas; Timothy D. Meehan; Matthew G.E. Mitchell; Gonzalo A.R. Molina; Maike Nesper; Lovisa Nilsson; Megan E. O’Rourke; Marcell K. Peters; Milan Plecas; Simon G. Potts; Davi De L. Ramos; Jay A. Rosenheim; Maj Rundlof; Adrien Rusch; Agustin Saez; Jeroen Scheper; Matthias Schleuning; Julia Schmack; Amber R. Sciligo; Colleen Seymour; Dara A. Stanley; Rebecca Stewart; Jane C. Stout; Louis Sutter; Mayura B. Takada; Hisatomo Taki; Giovanni Tamburini; Matthias Tschumi; Blandina F. Viana; Catrin Westphal; Bryony K. Willcox; Stephen D. Wratten; Akira Yoshioka; Carlos Zaragoza-Trello; Wei Zhang; Yi Zou; Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter; Heide Leire; Eliana Martinez. 2019. "A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production." , no. : 554170.

Research article
Published: 14 June 2018 in Landscape Ecology
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Habitat loss, especially within agriculture, can be a threat to biodiversity. However, biodiversity may respond slowly to habitat loss, taking time to undergo successional change following a disturbance. Despite the fact that historic processes often mediate current patterns of biodiversity, most studies focus only on contemporary factors. Our research examines how both contemporary and historic environmental factors impact current pollinator community similarity, or beta-diversity. We examine two hypotheses: H1) contemporary land-use predicts community similarity, but also that land-use history has long-lasting effects on beta-diversity; H2) the specific response to contemporary and historic environmental factors is explained by variation in pollinator species life-history traits. We sampled 36 pollinator communities over a three-year period across cotton fields varying in historic and contemporary land-use. Using multiple regression on distance matrices (MRDM), we investigate correlations between community similarity and differences in contemporary and historic environmental factors. First, we show that increased time between sampling events and the loss of semi-natural habitat over a 19-year period led to decreased community similarity. Interestingly, neither geographic distance nor contemporary environmental factors contributed to similarity. Second, we show that much of the variation in community similarity is due to variation in pollinator species life-history traits, such as foraging ability and diet breadth. Results indicate that land-use history has long-lasting effects on community composition, greater than effects exhibited by contemporary factors. These legacy effects are critical considerations for conservation as their omission may lead to overly optimistic assessments of biodiversity in recently disturbed habitats.

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Sarah Cusser; John L. Neff; Shalene Jha. Land-use history drives contemporary pollinator community similarity. Landscape Ecology 2018, 33, 1335 -1351.

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Sarah Cusser, John L. Neff, Shalene Jha. Land-use history drives contemporary pollinator community similarity. Landscape Ecology. 2018; 33 (8):1335-1351.

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Sarah Cusser; John L. Neff; Shalene Jha. 2018. "Land-use history drives contemporary pollinator community similarity." Landscape Ecology 33, no. 8: 1335-1351.

Journal article
Published: 07 September 2015 in Insect Conservation and Diversity
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Sarah Cusser; John L. Neff; Shalene Jha. Land use change and pollinator extinction debt in exurban landscapes. Insect Conservation and Diversity 2015, 8, 562 -572.

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Sarah Cusser, John L. Neff, Shalene Jha. Land use change and pollinator extinction debt in exurban landscapes. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 2015; 8 (6):562-572.

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Sarah Cusser; John L. Neff; Shalene Jha. 2015. "Land use change and pollinator extinction debt in exurban landscapes." Insect Conservation and Diversity 8, no. 6: 562-572.

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Published: 25 February 2013 in Restoration Ecology
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Plant–pollinator mutualisms are one of the several functional relationships that must be reinstated to ensure the long‐term success of habitat restoration projects. These mutualisms are unlikely to reinstate themselves until all of the resource requirements of pollinators have been met. By meeting these requirements, projects can improve their long‐term success. We hypothesized that pollinator assemblage and structure and stability of plant–pollinator networks depend both on aspects of the surrounding landscape and of the restoration effort itself. We predicted that pollinator species diversity and network stability would be negatively associated with distance from remnant habitat, but that local floral diversity might rescue pollinator diversity and network stability in locations distant from the remnant. We created plots of native prairie on a reclaimed strip mine in central Ohio, U.S.A. that ranged in floral diversity and isolation from the remnant habitat. We found that the pollinator diversity declined with distance from the remnant habitat. Furthermore, reduced pollinator diversity in low floral diversity plots far from the remnant habitat was associated with loss of network stability. High floral diversity, however, compensated for losses in pollinator diversity in plots far from the remnant habitat through the attraction of generalist pollinators. Generalist pollinators increased network connectance and plant‐niche overlap. As a result, network robustness of high floral diversity plots was independent of isolation. We conclude that the aspects of the restoration effort itself, such as floral community composition, can be successfully tailored to incorporate the restoration of pollinators and improve success given a particular landscape context.

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Sarah Cusser; Karen Goodell. Diversity and Distribution of Floral Resources Influence the Restoration of Plant-Pollinator Networks on a Reclaimed Strip Mine. Restoration Ecology 2013, 21, 713 -721.

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Sarah Cusser, Karen Goodell. Diversity and Distribution of Floral Resources Influence the Restoration of Plant-Pollinator Networks on a Reclaimed Strip Mine. Restoration Ecology. 2013; 21 (6):713-721.

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Sarah Cusser; Karen Goodell. 2013. "Diversity and Distribution of Floral Resources Influence the Restoration of Plant-Pollinator Networks on a Reclaimed Strip Mine." Restoration Ecology 21, no. 6: 713-721.