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SUBMITTER: Pywell RF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614778 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pywell Richard F RF Heard Matthew S MS Woodcock Ben A BA Hinsley Shelley S Ridding Lucy L Nowakowski Marek M Bullock James M JM
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20151001 1816
Ecological intensification has been promoted as a means to achieve environmentally sustainable increases in crop yields by enhancing ecosystem functions that regulate and support production. There is, however, little direct evidence of yield benefits from ecological intensification on commercial farms growing globally important foodstuffs (grains, oilseeds and pulses). We replicated two treatments removing 3 or 8% of land at the field edge from production to create wildlife habitat in 50-60 ha p ...[more]