Predicting the delivery of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes

澳大利亚农业的生态可持续性依赖于生态系统提供的服务（例如授粉）。服务的提供受到环境变化的威胁，但没有既定的方法来预测变化对服务的影响。该项目将进行澳大利亚有史以来最全面的生态系统服务提供实验研究，测试一种通过物种特征将环境变化与服务提供变化联系起来的方法的预测能力。主要成果包括提高农学家实现生态系统效益最大化和提高经济回报的能力，以及通过承认生物多样性对农业的贡献来改善生物多样性保护。

The ecological sustainability of Australian agriculture relies on services (for example, pollination) provided by ecosystems. Service provision is threatened by environmental change, but there is no established approach for predicting the impact of change on services. This project will undertake the most comprehensive experimental examination of ecosystem-service delivery ever conducted in Australia, testing the predictive capacity of an approach that links environmental change with variation in service provision through species’ traits. The major outcomes include greater capacity for agriculturalists to maximise ecosystem benefits and increase economic returns, and improved biodiversity conservation through recognition of its contribution to agriculture.