Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes

Animals provide services such as pollination and pest control in cacao agro- forestry systems, but also disservices. Yet, their combined contributions to crop yield and fruit loss are mostly unclear. In a full-factorial field exper- iment in northwestern Peru, we excluded flying insects, ants, birds...

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Autores principales: Vansynghel, Justine, Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina, Maas, Bea, Martin, Emily A., Thomas, Evert, Hanf-Dressler, Tara, Schumacher, Nils-Christian, Ulloque-Samatelo, Carlos, Yovera, Fredy F., Tscharntke, Teja, Steffan-dewenter, Ingolf
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Royal Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121948
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author Vansynghel, Justine
Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina
Maas, Bea
Martin, Emily A.
Thomas, Evert
Hanf-Dressler, Tara
Schumacher, Nils-Christian
Ulloque-Samatelo, Carlos
Yovera, Fredy F.
Tscharntke, Teja
Steffan-dewenter, Ingolf
author_browse Hanf-Dressler, Tara
Maas, Bea
Martin, Emily A.
Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina
Schumacher, Nils-Christian
Steffan-dewenter, Ingolf
Thomas, Evert
Tscharntke, Teja
Ulloque-Samatelo, Carlos
Vansynghel, Justine
Yovera, Fredy F.
author_facet Vansynghel, Justine
Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina
Maas, Bea
Martin, Emily A.
Thomas, Evert
Hanf-Dressler, Tara
Schumacher, Nils-Christian
Ulloque-Samatelo, Carlos
Yovera, Fredy F.
Tscharntke, Teja
Steffan-dewenter, Ingolf
author_sort Vansynghel, Justine
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description Animals provide services such as pollination and pest control in cacao agro- forestry systems, but also disservices. Yet, their combined contributions to crop yield and fruit loss are mostly unclear. In a full-factorial field exper- iment in northwestern Peru, we excluded flying insects, ants, birds and bats from cacao trees and assessed several productivity indicators. We quan- tified the contribution of each group to fruit set, fruit loss and marketable yield and evaluated how forest distance and canopy closure affected pro- ductivity. Fruit set dropped (from 1.7% to 0.3%) when flying insects were excluded and tripled at intermediate (40%) compared to high (greater than 80%) canopy cover in the non-exclusion treatment. Fruit set also dropped with bird and bat exclusion, potentially due to increased abundances of arthropods preying on pollinators or flower herbivores. Overall, cacao yields more than doubled when birds and bats had access to trees. Ants were generally associated with fruit loss, but also with yield increases in agroforests close to forest. We also evidenced disservices generated by squir- rels, leading to significant fruit losses. Our findings show that several functional groups contribute to high cacao yield, while trade-offs between services and disservices need to be integrated in local and landscape-scale sustainable cacao agroforestry management
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spelling CGSpace1219482025-11-11T17:41:07Z Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes Vansynghel, Justine Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina Maas, Bea Martin, Emily A. Thomas, Evert Hanf-Dressler, Tara Schumacher, Nils-Christian Ulloque-Samatelo, Carlos Yovera, Fredy F. Tscharntke, Teja Steffan-dewenter, Ingolf pollination vertebrates arthropoda ecosystem services cover plants cocoa agroforestry polinización vertebrados Animals provide services such as pollination and pest control in cacao agro- forestry systems, but also disservices. Yet, their combined contributions to crop yield and fruit loss are mostly unclear. In a full-factorial field exper- iment in northwestern Peru, we excluded flying insects, ants, birds and bats from cacao trees and assessed several productivity indicators. We quan- tified the contribution of each group to fruit set, fruit loss and marketable yield and evaluated how forest distance and canopy closure affected pro- ductivity. Fruit set dropped (from 1.7% to 0.3%) when flying insects were excluded and tripled at intermediate (40%) compared to high (greater than 80%) canopy cover in the non-exclusion treatment. Fruit set also dropped with bird and bat exclusion, potentially due to increased abundances of arthropods preying on pollinators or flower herbivores. Overall, cacao yields more than doubled when birds and bats had access to trees. Ants were generally associated with fruit loss, but also with yield increases in agroforests close to forest. We also evidenced disservices generated by squir- rels, leading to significant fruit losses. Our findings show that several functional groups contribute to high cacao yield, while trade-offs between services and disservices need to be integrated in local and landscape-scale sustainable cacao agroforestry management 2022-09-14 2022-09-27T12:52:39Z 2022-09-27T12:52:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121948 en Open Access application/pdf Royal Society Vansynghel, J.; Ocampo-ariza, C.; Maas, B.; Martin, E.A.; Thomas, .; Hanf-dressler, T.; Schumacher, N.C.; Ulloque-samatelo, C.; Yovera, F.F.; Tscharntke, T.; Steffan-dewenter, I. (2022) Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20221309. 9 p. ISSN: 0962-8452
spellingShingle pollination
vertebrates
arthropoda
ecosystem services
cover plants
cocoa
agroforestry
polinización
vertebrados
Vansynghel, Justine
Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina
Maas, Bea
Martin, Emily A.
Thomas, Evert
Hanf-Dressler, Tara
Schumacher, Nils-Christian
Ulloque-Samatelo, Carlos
Yovera, Fredy F.
Tscharntke, Teja
Steffan-dewenter, Ingolf
Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
title Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
title_full Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
title_fullStr Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
title_full_unstemmed Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
title_short Quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
title_sort quantifying services and disservices provided by insects and vertebrates in cacao agroforestry landscapes
topic pollination
vertebrates
arthropoda
ecosystem services
cover plants
cocoa
agroforestry
polinización
vertebrados
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121948
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