Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta-analysis

Agricultural intensification increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may support biodiversity within agroecosystems. These spatial heterogeneity effects can be partitioned into compositional (land-cover type diversity) and configurational heterogeneity (land-cover type arrangement), measured either for the crop mosaic or across the landscape for both crops and semi-natural habitats. However, studies have reported mixed responses of biodiversity to increases in these heterogeneity components across taxa and contexts. Our meta-analysis covering 6,397 fields across 122 studies conducted in Asia, Europe, and North and South America reveals consistently positive effects of crop and landscape heterogeneity, as well as compositional and configurational heterogeneity for plant, invertebrate, vertebrate, pollinator, and predator bi..., We screened English Language papers published up to March 2023 from the ‘Web of Science’ (apps.webofknowledge.com/) and ‘Scopus’ (www.scopus.com/) using the following search strings. 
TS=(\"landscape heterogeneity\" OR \"landscape diversity\" OR \"landscape complexity\" OR \"crop heterogeneity\" OR \"crop diversity\" OR \"farmland heterogeneity\" OR \"farmland diversity\" OR \"compositional heterogeneity\" OR \"configurational heterogeneity\") AND TS=(\"diversity\" OR \"biodiversity\" OR \"richness\" OR \"evenness\" OR \"abundance\")., , # Data from: Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta-analysis

**Journal:** Ecology Letters

**Authors:** Tharaka S. Priyadarshana (ORCID: 0000-0003-3962-5465), Emily A. Martin (0000-0001-5785-9105), Clélia Sirami (0000-0003-1741-3082), Ben A. Woodcock (0000-0003-0300-9951), Eben Goodale (0000-0003-3403-2847), Carlos Martínez-Núñez (0000-0001-7814-4985), Myung-Bok Lee (0000-0003-2680-5707), Emilio Pagani-Núñez (0000-0001-8839-4005), Chloé A. Raderschall (0000-0003-2005-1705), Lluís Brotons (0000-0002-4826-4457), Anushka Rege (0000-0002-8383-0258), Annie Ouin (0000-0001-7046-2719), Teja Tscharntke (0000-0002-4482-3178), Eleanor M. Slade (0000-0002-6108-1196)

**Contact:** Tharaka S. Priyadarshana; [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail]); [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

**Data citation:** Priyadarshana, T.S., Martin, E.A., Sirami, C., Woodcock, B.A., Goodale...