Cropping systems that rely on renewable energy and resources and are based on
ecological principles could be more stable and productive into the future than current …

How do we redesign agricultural landscapes to maintain their productivity and profitability,
while promoting rather than eradicating biodiversity, and regenerating rather than …

Few studies have addressed the relationship between genetic diversity and provision of
ecosystem services in agroecosystems. In this review, we argue that the contribution of …

Global attention to biodiversity has expanded in the past decade. Agricultural biodiversity is
the most important part of biodiversity for human survival, yet has been neglected as a topic …

Plant diversity has been reported to increase productivity. Farming practices aiming at
conserving or increasing plant diversity are, however, usually less profitable than …

Faced with an accelerating rate of environmental change and the associated need for a
more sustainable, low-input agriculture, the urgent new challenge for crop science is to find …

Over the past two decades, ecologists have gained a considerable amount of insight
concerning the effects of biological diversity on how ecosystems function. Greater …

Ecological intensification (EI) is the enhancement of ecosystem services to complement or
substitute for the role of anthropogenic inputs in maintaining or increasing yields. EI has …

Agricultural landscape homogenization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and key
ecosystem services. Increasing agricultural landscape heterogeneity by increasing …

Research has delivered convincing findings on the effect of biodiversity on ecosystem
functioning and humankind. Indeed, ecosystems provide provisioning, regulating …