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This chapter explores the relationships among agricultural practices, landscape complexities and biodiversity. It discusses the negative effects of conventional agriculture, highlighting how intensification and reliance on external inputs lead to biodiversity loss, particularly among arthropods. The chapter introduces agroecological approaches, emphasizing their potential to restore ecological balance and enhance sustainability through biodiversity promotion and ecological processes integration. The chapter also analyzes pollination and pest control services, underscoring their dependency on arthropod diversity. It discusses how landscape structure, complexity, and heterogeneity influence biodiversity and ecosystem services. The chapter highlights the significance of a landscape-level perspective for effective biodiversity conservation combined with local management practices that can improve the diversity and effectiveness of pollinators and natural enemies. Finally, the chapter considers the cross-scale effects, integrating local and landscape aspects and stressing the importance of understanding these interactions to optimize essential ecosystem services.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Agriculture and its influence on landscapes and biodiversity
- 3 Biodiversity and ecosystem services: pollination, pest control and their effect on crop yield
- 4 Landscape level perspective for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services
- 5 Local management effects on pollinators and natural enemies diversity
- 6 Landscape complexity effects on pollinators and natural enemies diversity
- 7 Cross-scale effects: integrating local, landscape and temporal aspects
- 8 Conclusion
- 9 Where to look for further information