Can nature-based climate solutions enhance the resilience of key ecological functions in farmed landscapes?

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This project will build empirical species interaction networks of predatoryarthropods (such as Coleoptera or Odonata) and their prey (includingeconomically important pest species), and flower-visiting insects (solitary andsocial bees) at the farm and field scale, to test the hypothesis that nature-based climate solutions can increase the robustness of ecological networkstructure, and thus the resilience of ecosystem services delivered byarthropods. Sampling will be based around replicated experimental trials ofnature-based climate solutions being codesigned with stakeholders in a majornew interdisciplinary project led by the University of Cambridge and fundedfrom 2022.