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Porträtt av Henrik Smith. Foto.

Henrik Smith

Professor

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Effects of farming intensity, crop rotation and landscape heterogeneity on field bean pollination

Författare

  • Georg Andersson
  • Johan Ekroos
  • Martin Stjernman
  • Maj Rundlöf
  • Henrik Smith

Summary, in English

Organic farming has the potential to enhance ecosystem services such as crop pollination. However, it is not known if a similar effect can be generated on conventional farms, without reducing external inputs such as inorganic fertilizers and pesticides, by using more complex crop rotations including ley for animal fodder production. In two separate designs, both located in southern Sweden, we tested if local organic farming and the landscape proportion of conventionally managed leys, along a landscape heterogeneity gradient, affected the pollination success of field bean. The number of developed pods was higher on organic farms compared to conventional ones. Development of beans, which demands high pollination efficiency, increased with increasing landscape heterogeneity, but only on organic farms. Increasing proportion of ley on conventional farms did not significantly influence the development of beans. The number of developed pods was not affected by the proportion of ley in the landscape. Our results demonstrate that in order to maximize pollination success it is important to improve both field management and preserve semi-natural habitats in the agricultural landscape. Reducing farming intensity with conventionally managed leys does not seem to be as effective as organic farming for delivering crop pollination services. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Avdelning/ar

  • Biodiversity
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Biodiversitet och bevarandevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

145-148

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Volym

184

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • Organic farming
  • Ley
  • Pollinators
  • Farming practice
  • Agri-environment
  • schemes
  • Ecosystem services

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Effects of Farming Practice on Pollinators and Pollination across Space and Time

Forskningsgrupp

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-2305