Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis

Agricultural intensification not only increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may support biodiversity within agroecosystems. These spatial heterogeneity effects can be partitioned into compositional (land-cover type diversity) and configurational heterogeneity (land-cover type arrangement), measured either for the crop mosaic or across the landscape for both crops and semi-natural habitats. However, studies have reported mixed responses of biodiversity to increases in these heterogeneity components across taxa and contexts. Our meta-analysis…

• SR
  Sight Research UK

  Awards: NE/W005050/1, NE/V006525/1, NE/V007548/1
• NT
  Nanyang Technological University

  Awards: Tier 1, R2004096
• MO
  Ministry of Education, India
• GU
  Guangxi University
• NE
  Natural Environment Research Council

  Awards: NE/V007548/1, NE/V006525/1, NE/W005050/1, NE/V007548/1, NE/V006525/1, NE/W005050/1
• CF
  Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

  Awards: NE/W005050/1 (AgZero+), NE/V007548/1 (GLiTRS), NE/V006525/1, NE/V006525/1 (RestREco)