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      Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield

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          Diversification practices benefit biodiversity, pollination, pest control, nutrient cycling, soil fertility, and water regulation.

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          Enhancing biodiversity in cropping systems is suggested to promote ecosystem services, thereby reducing dependency on agronomic inputs while maintaining high crop yields. We assess the impact of several diversification practices in cropping systems on above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem services by reviewing 98 meta-analyses and performing a second-order meta-analysis based on 5160 original studies comprising 41,946 comparisons between diversified and simplified practices. Overall, diversification enhances biodiversity, pollination, pest control, nutrient cycling, soil fertility, and water regulation without compromising crop yields. Practices targeting aboveground biodiversity boosted pest control and water regulation, while those targeting belowground biodiversity enhanced nutrient cycling, soil fertility, and water regulation. Most often, diversification practices resulted in win-win support of services and crop yields. Variability in responses and occurrence of trade-offs highlight the context dependency of outcomes. Widespread adoption of diversification practices shows promise to contribute to biodiversity conservation and food security from local to global scales.

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              Funnel plots (plots of effect estimates against sample size) may be useful to detect bias in meta-analyses that were later contradicted by large trials. We examined whether a simple test of asymmetry of funnel plots predicts discordance of results when meta-analyses are compared to large trials, and we assessed the prevalence of bias in published meta-analyses. Medline search to identify pairs consisting of a meta-analysis and a single large trial (concordance of results was assumed if effects were in the same direction and the meta-analytic estimate was within 30% of the trial); analysis of funnel plots from 37 meta-analyses identified from a hand search of four leading general medicine journals 1993-6 and 38 meta-analyses from the second 1996 issue of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Degree of funnel plot asymmetry as measured by the intercept from regression of standard normal deviates against precision. In the eight pairs of meta-analysis and large trial that were identified (five from cardiovascular medicine, one from diabetic medicine, one from geriatric medicine, one from perinatal medicine) there were four concordant and four discordant pairs. In all cases discordance was due to meta-analyses showing larger effects. Funnel plot asymmetry was present in three out of four discordant pairs but in none of concordant pairs. In 14 (38%) journal meta-analyses and 5 (13%) Cochrane reviews, funnel plot asymmetry indicated that there was bias. A simple analysis of funnel plots provides a useful test for the likely presence of bias in meta-analyses, but as the capacity to detect bias will be limited when meta-analyses are based on a limited number of small trials the results from such analyses should be treated with considerable caution.
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                Journal
                Sci Adv
                Sci Adv
                SciAdv
                advances
                Science Advances
                American Association for the Advancement of Science
                2375-2548
                November 2020
                04 November 2020
                : 6
                : 45
                : eaba1715
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
                [2 ]Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences (DiSSPA-Entomology), University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
                [3 ]Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
                [4 ]Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
                [5 ]Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Biodiversity Research Center and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
                [6 ]Plant-Soil-Interactions, Research Division Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Switzerland.
                [7 ]Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
                [8 ]Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA.
                [9 ]Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
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                [* ]Corresponding author. Email: giovanni.tamburini@ 123456uniba.it
                [†]

                Present address: Westlake University, School of Engineering, Hangzhou, China.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7546-8183
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-0476
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-1153
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6909-4605
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-1924
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9069-9024
                Article
                aba1715
                10.1126/sciadv.aba1715
                7673676
                33148637
                77563110-2124-4715-a8fb-c9d8f628928a
                Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 11 November 2019
                : 18 September 2020
                Funding
                Funded by: doi http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001862, Swedish Research Council Formas;
                Award ID: 941-2015-1792
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