Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

T Newbold, LN Hudson, AP Arnell, S Contu… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear
how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (“safe …

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

T Newbold, LN Hudson, SLL Hill, S Contu, I Lysenko… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

Farmlands with smaller crop fields have higher within-field biodiversity

L Fahrig, J Girard, D Duro, J Pasher, A Smith… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2015 - Elsevier
Simple rules for landscape management seem elusive because different species and
species groups are associated with different land cover types; a change in landscape …

Strategies for the attraction and conservation of natural pollinators in agroecosystems: a systematic review

D Duque-Trujillo, CA Hincapié, M Osorio… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The objective of this work is to find the most prevalent elements that have positive effects on
pollinator density and diversity in crop fields, as reported in the literature, through a …

Redesigning Canadian prairie cropping systems for profitability, sustainability, and resilience

JRT Martens, MH Entz… - Canadian Journal of Plant …, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
Thiessen Martens, JR, Entz, MH and Wonneck, MD 2015. Review: Redesigning Canadian
prairie cropping systems for profitability, sustainability, and resilience. Can. J. Plant Sci. 95 …

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

LN Hudson, T Newbold, S Contu, SLL Hill… - Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as
habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global …

The database of the PREDICTS (projecting responses of ecological diversity in changing terrestrial systems) project

LN Hudson, T Newbold, S Contu, SLL Hill… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

Density of insect‐pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land‐use intensity

Y Clough, J Ekroos, A Báldi, P Batáry… - Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinator declines have raised concerns about the persistence of plant species that depend
on insect pollination, in particular by bees, for their reproduction. The impact of pollinator …

Floral resource partitioning by individuals within generalised hoverfly pollination networks revealed by DNA metabarcoding

A Lucas, O Bodger, BJ Brosi, CR Ford, DW Forman… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Pollination is a key ecosystem service for agriculture and wider ecosystem function.
However, most pollination studies focus on Hymenoptera, with hoverflies (Syrphidae) …

Riparian buffer strips: Their role in the conservation of insect pollinators in intensive grassland systems

LJ Cole, S Brocklehurst, D Robertson… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is growing concern that the global decline of insect pollinators will adversely influence
the stability of pollination in agricultural and terrestrial ecosystems. By enhancing habitat …