Historical decrease in agricultural landscape diversity is associated with shifts in bumble bee species occurrence.
Bombus
Agricultural intensification
crop diversity
ecoinformatics
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2021
Sep 2021
Historique:
revised:
20
01
2021
revised:
07
04
2021
received:
10
12
2020
accepted:
26
04
2021
pubmed:
19
6
2021
medline:
13
8
2021
entrez:
18
6
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Agricultural intensification is a key suspect among putative drivers of recent insect declines, but an explicit link between historical change in agricultural land cover and insect occurrence is lacking. Determining whether agriculture impacts beneficial insects (e.g. pollinators), is crucial to enhancing agricultural sustainability. Here, we combine large spatiotemporal sets of historical bumble bee and agricultural records to show that increasing cropland extent and decreasing crop richness were associated with declines in over 50% of bumble bee species in the agriculturally intensive Midwest, USA. Critically, we found that high crop diversity was associated with a higher occurrence of many species pre-1950 even in agriculturally dominated areas, but that current agricultural landscapes are devoid of high crop diversity. Our findings suggest that insect conservation and agricultural production may be compatible, with increasing on-farm and landscape-level crop diversity predicted to have positive effects on bumble bees.
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1800-1813Subventions
Organisme : USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Systems Coordinated Agricultural Program
ID : 2019-68012-29852
Organisme : National Institute of Food and Agriculture
ID : 2019-67013-29298
Organisme : University of Wisconsin Hatch
ID : WIS01988
Organisme : National Institute of Food and Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Systems Coordinated Agricultural Program
ID : 2019-68012-29852
Organisme : National Institute of Food and Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Systems Coordinated Agricultural Program
ID : 2019-67013-29298
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© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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