Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural
ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially …

Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the
delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop …

To leverage agriculture's potential to better benefit both people and nature, policymakers
need clear messages about which farming practices positively impact biodiversity and …

Enhancing biodiversity in cropping systems is suggested to promote ecosystem services,
thereby reducing dependency on agronomic inputs while maintaining high crop yields. We …

A biodiversity-based paradigm for sustainable agriculture is a potential solution for many of
the problems associated with intensive, high input agriculture, and for greater resilience to …

We hypothesize that biological diversification across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales
maintains and regenerates the ecosystem services that provide critical inputs—such as …

Ecological studies identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem
services motivate projections that higher plant diversity will increase services from …

More than a century since Charles Darwin stated that diverse grasslands produce more
herbage than monocultures, scientists still debate the relationship between species diversity …

Predictive theory on how plant diversity promotes herbivore suppression through movement
patterns, host associations, and predation promises a potential alternative to pesticide …

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 …