Eleanor J. Blitzer

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 46 landscape-level studies found that natural enemies have a strong positive response to landscape complexity, and suggests that land management strategies to enhance natural pest control should differ depending on whether the dominant enemies are generalists or specialists.

TL;DR: It is shown that, while the contribution of wild bees to crop production is significant, service delivery is restricted to a limited subset of all known bee species, suggesting that cost-effective management strategies to promote crop pollination should target a different set of species than management Strategies to promote threatened bees.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that spillover in the managed to natural direction has been largely underestimated, and that as habitat modification continues, resulting in increasingly fragmented landscapes, the likelihood and size of any spillover effect will only increase.

TL;DR: Assessment of the effect of conventional pesticide use on the wild bee community visiting apple within a gradient of percentage natural area in the landscape demonstrates extended benefits of natural areas for wild pollinators and highlights the importance of considering the landscape context when weighing up the costs of pest management on crop pollination services.

TL;DR: This study links landscape–mediated changes in the phylogenetic structure of natural communities to the disruption of ecosystem services, which may fail to protect ecosystem functions and the full diversity of life from which they are derived.