Context Agroecology combines agronomic and ecological concepts. It relies on the
enhancement of biodiversity and related ecosystem services to support agricultural …

Semi-natural habitats are integral to most agricultural areas and have the potential to
support ecosystem services, especially biological control and pollination by supplying …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

Ecosystem services are critical to human survival; in selected cases, maintaining these
services provides a powerful argument for conserving biodiversity. Yet, the ecological and …

The ability to predict the responses of ecological communities and individual species to
human-induced environmental change remains a key issue for ecologists and conservation …

Agricultural biodiversity has hitherto been valued almost exclusively as a source of traits that
can be used in scientific breeding programs to improve the productivity of crop varieties and …

Many ecosystem services are delivered by organisms that depend on habitats that are
segregated spatially or temporally from the location where services are provided …

Summary 1 Habitat requirements of solitary bees include nesting sites, food resources and
nesting material. We used translocation experiments to establish foraging distances and …

Determining whether seed production is pollen limited has been an area of intensive
empirical study over the last two decades. Yet current evidence does not allow satisfactory …

Most ecological processes and interactions depend on scales much larger than a single
habitat, and therefore it is important to link spatial patterns and ecological processes at a …