biodiversity. Ecologists have shown that biodiversity loss results in lower plant productivity, while agricultural economists have … linked biodiversity loss on farms with increasing variability of crop yields, and sometimes lower mean yields. In this paper … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …

An intrinsic feature of agriculture is the alteration of biodiversity within the cultivated area in favour of the … biodiversity are important for human health and wellbeing. The overarching question is how can negative influences of agriculture … on biodiversity be reduced and positive interactions be enhanced toward an efficient and sustainable food production …

biodiversity / Amy E. Young, Luke T. Macaulay, Stephanie R. Larson, and Alison L. Van Eenennaam -- Agriculture and pollution … biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm and Varsha Vijay. … proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our survival on earth possible. Those relationships are highly intertwined …