Functional traits in agriculture: Agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 531-539

  Wood, Stephen A ^a   Karp, Daniel S ^b,c   DeClerck, Fabrice ^a,d   Kremen, Claire ^b   Naeem, Shahid ^a   Palm, Cheryl A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services Programme   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agrobiodiversity; Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Ecosystem services; Functional diversity; Functional trait

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FARMING SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84946735627     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.013     Document Type: Review

References (81)

1. Naeem S., et al. The functions of biological diversity in an age of extinction. Science 2012, 336:1401-1406.
2. Flombaum P., et al. Interactions among resource partitioning, sampling effect, and facilitation on the biodiversity effect: a modeling approach. Oecologia 2014, 174:559-566.
3. Chapin F.S., et al. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 2000, 405:234-242.
4. Lavorel S., Garnier E. Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail. Funct. Ecol. 2002, 16:545-556.
5. Naeem S., Wright J.P. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecol. Lett. 2003, 6:567-579.
6. Cadotte M.W., et al. Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services. J. Appl. Ecol. 2011, 48:1079-1087.
7. Bolnick D.I., et al. Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2011, 26:183-192.
8. Violle C., et al. The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2012, 27:244-252.
9. Swift M. Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes? are we asking the right questions?. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2004, 104:113-134.
10. Jackson L., et al. Utilizing and conserving agrobiodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2007, 121:196-210.
11. Altieri M. The ecological role of biodiversity in agroecosystems. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 1999, 74:19-31.
12. Giller K., et al. Agricultural intensification, soil biodiversity, and agroecosystem function. Appl. Soil Ecol. 1997, 6:3-16.
13. Hajjar R., et al. The utility of crop genetic diversity in maintaining ecosystem services. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2008, 123:261-270.
14. Remans R., et al. Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies. Global Food Sec. 2014, 3:174-182.
15. Dabney S., et al. Using winter cover crops to improve soil and water quality. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 2001, 32:1221-1250.
16. Kremen C., Miles A. Ecosystem services in biologically diversified versus conventional farming systems: benefits, externalities, and trade-offs. Ecol. Soc. 2012, 17:art40.
17. Zhang W., et al. Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture. Ecol. Econ. 2007, 64:253-260.
18. Power A.G. Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B: Biol. Sci. 2010, 365:2959-2971.
19. Violle C., et al. Let the concept of trait be functional!. Oikos 2007, 116:882-892.
20. Díaz S., et al. Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007, 104:20684-20689.
21. De Bello F., et al. Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits. Biodivers. Conserv. 2010, 19:2873-2893.
22. Kirwan L., et al. Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites. J. Ecol. 2007, 95:530-539.
23. Dimitrakopoulos P.G., Schmid B. Biodiversity effects increase linearly with biotope space. Ecol. Lett. 2004, 7:574-583.
24. Schumacher J., Roscher C. Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands. Oikos 2009, 118:1659-1668.
25. Laughlin D.C. Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity. J. Ecol. 2011, 99:1091-1099.
26. Renting H., et al. Exploring multifunctional agriculture. A review of conceptual approaches and prospects for an integrative transitional framework. J. Environ. Manage. 2009, 90(Suppl. 2):S112-S123.
27. Bradford M., et al. Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2014, 111:14478-14483.
28. Bradford M.A., et al. Reply to Byrnes et al.: aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2014, 111:E5491.
29. Brooker R.W., et al. Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology. New Phytol. 2015, 206:107-117.
30. Ibewiro B., et al. Influence of phytoparasitic nematodes on symbiotic N2 fixation in tropical herbaceous legume cover crops. Biol. Fertil. Soils 2000, 31:254-260.
31. Gaba S., et al. Agroecological weed control using a functional approach: a review of cropping systems diversity. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 2013, 34:103-119.
32. Kremen C., M'Gonigle L.K. Small-scale restoration in intensive agricultural landscapes supports more specialized and less mobile pollinator species. J. Appl. Ecol. 2015, 52:602-610.
33. Fontana V., et al. What plant traits tell us: consequences of land-use change of a traditional agro-forest system on biodiversity and ecosystem service provision. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2014, 186:44-53.
34. Pelosi C., et al. Reducing tillage in cultivated fields increases earthworm functional diversity. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2014, 83:79-87.
35. Wood S.A., et al. Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms. J. Appl. Ecol. 2015, 52:744-752.
36. Luck G.W., et al. Improving the application of vertebrate trait-based frameworks to the study of ecosystem services. J. Anim. Ecol. 2012, 81:1065-1076.
37. Franco J.G., et al. Plant functional diversity improves short-term yields in a low-input intercropping system. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2015, 203:1-10.
38. Doisy D., et al. Weed seed rain interception by grass cover depends on seed traits. Weed Res. 2014, 54:593-602.
39. Navas M-L. Trait-based approaches to unravelling the assembly of weed communities and their impact on agro-ecosystem functioning. Weed Res. 2012, 52:479-488.
40. Hoehn P., et al. Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 2008, 275:2283-2291.
41. Philpott S.M., et al. Functional richness and ecosystem services: bird predation on arthropods in tropical agroecosystems. Ecol. Appl. 2009, 19:1858-1867.
42. Gagic V., et al. Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices. Proc. R. Soc. B 2015, 282:20142620.
43. Laliberté E., Tylianakis J.M. Cascading effects of long-term land-use changes on plant traits and ecosystem functioning. Ecology 2012, 93:145-155.
44. Wood S.A., et al. Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture. Front. Microbiol. 2015, 6:1-10.
45. Gardarin A., et al. Plant trait-digestibility relationships across management and climate gradients in permanent grasslands. J. Appl. Ecol. 2014, 51:1207-1217.
46. Steffan-Dewenter I., et al. Scale-dependent effects of landscape context on three pollinator guilds. Ecology 2002, 83:1421-1432.
47. Ricketts T.H., et al. Economic value of tropical forest to coffee production. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2004, 101:12579-12582.
48. Garibaldi L.A., et al. Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits. Ecol. Lett. 2011, 14:1062-1072.
49. Thompson P.L., et al. Ecosystem functions across trophic levels are linked to functional and phylogenetic diversity. PLoS ONE 2015, 10:e0117595.
50. Storkey J., et al. Using functional traits to quantify the value of plant communities to invertebrate ecosystem service providers in arable landscapes. J. Ecol. 2013, 101:38-46.
51. Kremen C., et al. Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change. Ecol. Lett. 2007, 10:299-314.
52. Mitchell M.G.E., et al. Reframing landscape fragmentation's effects on ecosystem services. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2015, 30:190-198.
53. Karp D.S., et al. Forest bolsters bird abundance, pest control and coffee yield. Ecol. Lett. 2013, 16:1339-1347.
54. Chaplin-Kramer R., et al. A meta-analysis of crop pest and natural enemy response to landscape complexity. Ecol. Lett. 2011, 14:922-932.
55. Lonsdorf E., et al. Modelling pollination services across agricultural landscapes. Ann. Bot. 2009, 103:1589-1600.
56. Lavorel S., et al. Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services. J. Ecol. 2011, 99:135-147.
57. Fahrig L., et al. Functional landscape heterogeneity and animal biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Ecol. Lett. 2011, 14:101-112.
58. Cushman S.A., et al. Parsimony in landscape metrics: strength, universality, and consistency. Ecol. Indic. 2008, 8:691-703.
59. Biswas S.R., et al. A conceptual framework for the spatial analysis of functional trait diversity. Oikos 2015, Published online May 12, 2015. 10.1111/oik.02277.
60. Reiss J., et al. Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2009, 24:505-514.
61. Letourneau D.K., et al. Effects of natural enemy biodiversity on the suppression of arthropod herbivores in terrestrial ecosystems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2009, 40:573-592.
62. Letourneau D.K., et al. Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review. Ecol. Appl. 2011, 21:9-21.
63. Lavorel S., et al. A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services. J. Veg. Sci. 2013, 24:942-948.
64. Segoli M., Rosenheim J.a. Should increasing the field size of monocultural crops be expected to exacerbate pest damage?. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2012, 150:38-44.
65. Díaz S., et al. Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2011, 108:895-902.
66. Laughlin D.C. Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration. Ecol. Lett. 2014, 17:771-784.
67. Storkey J., et al. Engineering a plant community to deliver multiple ecosystem services. Ecol. Appl. 2015, 25:1034-1043.
68. Bianchi F.J.J.A., et al. Sustainable pest regulation in agricultural landscapes: a review on landscape composition, biodiversity and natural pest control. Proc. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 2006, 273. 1715-1527.
69. De Vries F.T., et al. Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities. Ecol. Lett. 2012, 15:1230-1239.
70. García-Palacios P., et al. Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes. Ecol. Lett. 2013, 16:1045-1053.
71. Adler P.B., et al. Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2014, 111:740-745.
72. Kattge J., et al. TRY - a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biol. 2011, 17:2905-2935.
73. Forrest J.R.K., et al. Contrasting patterns in species and functional-trait diversity of bees in an agricultural landscape. J. Appl. Ecol. 2015, 52:706-715.
74. Maire E., et al. How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 2015, 24:728-740.
75. Pérez-Harguindeguy N., et al. New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Aust. J. Bot. 2013, 61:167-237.
76. Luck G.W., et al. Improving the application of vertebrate trait-based frameworks to the study of ecosystem services. J. Anim. Ecol. 2012, 81:1065-1076.
77. Schleuter D., et al. A user's guide to functional diversity indices. Ecol. Monogr. 2010, 80:469-484.
78. Lin B.B., et al. The effect of agricultural diversity and crop choice on functional capacity change in grassland conversions. J. Appl. Ecol. 2011, 48:609-618.
79. Nowak B., et al. Nutrient recycling in organic farming is related to diversity in farm types at the local level. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2015, 204:17-26.
80. Chaplin-Kramer R., Kremen C. Pest control experiments show benefits of complexity at landscape and local scales. Ecol. Appl. 2012, 22:1936-1948.
81. Larsen T.H., et al. Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. Ecol. Lett. 2005, 8:538-547.