
Henrik Smith
Professor

When ecosystem services interact: crop pollination benefits depend on the level of pest control.
Författare
Summary, in English
Pollination is a key ecosystem service which most often has been studied in isolation although effects of pollination on seed set might depend on, and interact with, other services important for crop production. We tested three competing hypotheses on how insect pollination and pest control might jointly affect seed set: independent, compensatory or synergistic effects. For this, we performed a cage experiment with two levels of insect pollination and simulated pest control in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) grown for seed. There was a synergistic interaction between the two services: the gain in seed set obtained when simultaneously increasing pollination and pest control outweighed the sum of seed set gains obtained when increasing each service separately. This study shows that interactions can alter the benefits obtained from service-providing organisms, and this needs to be considered to properly manage multiple ecosystem services.
Avdelning/ar
- Biodiversitet
- Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- Biodiversitet och bevarandevetenskap
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Volym
280
Issue
1753
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Royal Society Publishing
Ämne
- Ecology
- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Nyckelord
- Bombus
- Apion
- herbivore
- seed predator
- pollen limitation
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Biodiversity and Conservation Science
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1471-2954