Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms.

• Autor(a) principal: GARIBALDI, L. A.
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: CARVALHEIRO, L. G., VAISSIÈRE, B. E., GEMMILL-HERREN, B., HIPÓLITO, J., FREITAS, B. M., NGO, H. T., AZZU, N., SÁEZ, A., ASTROM, J., AN, J., BLOCHTEIN, B., BUCHORI, D., CHAMORRO GARCÍA, F. J., SILVA, F. O. da, DEVKOTA, K., RIBEIRO, M. de F., FREITAS, L., GAGLIANONE, M. C., GOSS, M., IRSHAD, M., KASINA, M., PACHECO FILHO, A. J. S., KIILL, L. H. P., KWAPONG, P., NATES PARRA, G., PIRES, C. S. S., PIRES, V., RAWAL, R. S., RIZALI, A., SARAIVA, A. M., VELDTMAN, R., VIANA, B. F., WITTER, S., ZHAN, H.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1035104
• topic: Visitantes florais; Grande fazenda; Pequena fazenda; Pollinator diversity; Polinização; Biodiversidade

Ecological intensification, or the improvement of crop yield through enhancement of biodiversity, may be a sustainable pathway toward greater food supplies. Such sustainable increases may be especially important for the 2 billion people reliant on small farms, many of which are undernourished, yet we know little about the efficacy of this approach. Using a coordinated protocol across regions and crops, we quantify to what degree enhancing pollinator density and richness can improve yields on 344 fields from 33 pollinator-dependent crop systems in small and large farms from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For fields less than 2 hectares, we found that yield gaps could be closed by a median of 24% through higher flower-visitor density. For larger fields, such benefits only occurred at high flower-visitor richness. Worldwide, our study demonstrates that ecological intensification can create synchronous biodiversity and yield outcomes.