Many ecosystem services are delivered by organisms that depend on
habitats that are segregated spatially or temporally from the location
where services are provided. Management of mobile organisms contributing
to ecosystem services requires consideration not only of the local
scale where services are delivered, but also the distribution of
resources at the landscape scale, and the foraging ranges and dispersal
movements of the mobile agents. We develop a conceptual model for
exploring how one such mobile-agent-based ecosystem service (MABES),
pollination, is affected by land-use change, and then generalize
the model to other MABES. The model includes interactions and feedbacks
among policies affecting land use, market forces and the biology
of the organisms involved. Animal-mediated pollination contributes
to the production of goods of value to humans such as crops; it also
bolsters reproduction of wild plants on which other services or service-providing
organisms depend. About one-third of crop production depends on animal
pollinators, while 60-90\% of plant species require an animal pollinator.
The sensitivity of mobile organisms to ecological factors that operate
across spatial scales makes the services provided by a given community
of mobile agents highly contextual. Services vary, depending on the
spatial and temporal distribution of resources surrounding the site,
and on biotic interactions occurring locally, such as competition
among pollinators for resources, and among plants for pollinators.
The value of the resulting goods or services may feed back via market-based
forces to influence land-use policies, which in turn influence land
management practices that alter local habitat conditions and landscape
structure. Developing conceptual models for MABES aids in identifying
knowledge gaps, determining research priorities, and targeting interventions
that can be applied in an adaptive management context.
%0 Journal Article
%1 kremen2007mobile
%A Kremen, Claire
%A Williams, Neal M
%A Aizen, Marcelo A
%A Gemmill-Herren, Barbara
%A LeBuhn, Gretchen
%A Minckley, Robert
%A Packer, Laurence
%A Potts, Simon G
%A Roulston, T'ai
%A Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
%A Vázquez, Diego P
%A Winfree, Rachael
%A Adams, Laurie
%A Crone, Elizabeth E
%A Greenleaf, Sarah S
%A Keitt, Timothy H
%A Klein, Alexandra-Maria
%A Regetz, James
%A Ricketts, Taylor H
%D 2007
%J Ecol Lett
%K Nadrowski_K agricultural animals bees biological_conservation crops ecosystem models natural_physiology plants policy pollen public reproduction resources
%N 4
%P 299--314
%R 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01018.x
%T Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms:
a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01018.x
%V 10
%X Many ecosystem services are delivered by organisms that depend on
habitats that are segregated spatially or temporally from the location
where services are provided. Management of mobile organisms contributing
to ecosystem services requires consideration not only of the local
scale where services are delivered, but also the distribution of
resources at the landscape scale, and the foraging ranges and dispersal
movements of the mobile agents. We develop a conceptual model for
exploring how one such mobile-agent-based ecosystem service (MABES),
pollination, is affected by land-use change, and then generalize
the model to other MABES. The model includes interactions and feedbacks
among policies affecting land use, market forces and the biology
of the organisms involved. Animal-mediated pollination contributes
to the production of goods of value to humans such as crops; it also
bolsters reproduction of wild plants on which other services or service-providing
organisms depend. About one-third of crop production depends on animal
pollinators, while 60-90\% of plant species require an animal pollinator.
The sensitivity of mobile organisms to ecological factors that operate
across spatial scales makes the services provided by a given community
of mobile agents highly contextual. Services vary, depending on the
spatial and temporal distribution of resources surrounding the site,
and on biotic interactions occurring locally, such as competition
among pollinators for resources, and among plants for pollinators.
The value of the resulting goods or services may feed back via market-based
forces to influence land-use policies, which in turn influence land
management practices that alter local habitat conditions and landscape
structure. Developing conceptual models for MABES aids in identifying
knowledge gaps, determining research priorities, and targeting interventions
that can be applied in an adaptive management context.
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abstract = {Many ecosystem services are delivered by organisms that depend on
habitats that are segregated spatially or temporally from the location
where services are provided. Management of mobile organisms contributing
to ecosystem services requires consideration not only of the local
scale where services are delivered, but also the distribution of
resources at the landscape scale, and the foraging ranges and dispersal
movements of the mobile agents. We develop a conceptual model for
exploring how one such mobile-agent-based ecosystem service (MABES),
pollination, is affected by land-use change, and then generalize
the model to other MABES. The model includes interactions and feedbacks
among policies affecting land use, market forces and the biology
of the organisms involved. Animal-mediated pollination contributes
to the production of goods of value to humans such as crops; it also
bolsters reproduction of wild plants on which other services or service-providing
organisms depend. About one-third of crop production depends on animal
pollinators, while 60-90\% of plant species require an animal pollinator.
The sensitivity of mobile organisms to ecological factors that operate
across spatial scales makes the services provided by a given community
of mobile agents highly contextual. Services vary, depending on the
spatial and temporal distribution of resources surrounding the site,
and on biotic interactions occurring locally, such as competition
among pollinators for resources, and among plants for pollinators.
The value of the resulting goods or services may feed back via market-based
forces to influence land-use policies, which in turn influence land
management practices that alter local habitat conditions and landscape
structure. Developing conceptual models for MABES aids in identifying
knowledge gaps, determining research priorities, and targeting interventions
that can be applied in an adaptive management context.},
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author = {Kremen, Claire and Williams, Neal M and Aizen, Marcelo A and Gemmill-Herren, Barbara and LeBuhn, Gretchen and Minckley, Robert and Packer, Laurence and Potts, Simon G and Roulston, T'ai and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf and Vázquez, Diego P and Winfree, Rachael and Adams, Laurie and Crone, Elizabeth E and Greenleaf, Sarah S and Keitt, Timothy H and Klein, Alexandra-Maria and Regetz, James and Ricketts, Taylor H},
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keywords = {Nadrowski_K agricultural animals bees biological_conservation crops ecosystem models natural_physiology plants policy pollen public reproduction resources},
month = Apr,
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pages = {299--314},
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timestamp = {2008-05-21T14:33:33.000+0200},
title = {Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms:
a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01018.x},
volume = 10,
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