Linking biodiversity to ecosystem services on farmlandWP leader - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (S), Riccardo Bommarco.The main objective of WP2 is to quantify the individual contributions, and their trade-offs, to agricultural production, of multiple ecosystem services . WP2 will furthermore investigate how the deliveries of these services are dependent on the species diversity and composition of service-providing communities in major representative European cropping systems. Some ecosystem services, such as greenhouse gas emission control, may trade-off with yield, and services will be quantified in terms of proportional contributions to or reductions of crop yield. Importantly, we will quantify both the single and the combined contributions to crop yield of different services provided by organisms above- and below-ground. Ecosystem services are nearly always studied individually and are usually considered as additive, but possible interplay among services has not yet been systematically explored, not even for major crops.![]() The data set compiled in WP2 will serve as a reference for understanding
the general relationships between land use biodiversity, ecosystem services and
agriculture in real European landscapes for LIBERATION. Major European crops
that will be considered are: (wind-pollinated) wheat and maize, and (partially
dependent on insect pollination) oil seed rape and sunflower. Objectives
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