Increased agrobiodiversity is expected to provide more resilient ecosystem services in farmland. Biological control of agricultural pests is an ecosystem service that currently provides humans with great benefits. The overall aim of IMPRESS is to improve our understanding of how agrobiodiversity at local to landscape scales contributes to the resilience of biological pest control and how we can best capitalize on this asset in different landscapes and climatic conditions. To achieve this, IMPRESS will (i) provide empirical assessments of how natural enemy diversity contributes to resilience of biological pest control under different disturbance and diversification conditions, (ii) use this novel information to better understand the link between farm diversity and landscape complexity to optimize biological control resilience in future climate and land-use scenarios, and (iii) analyse governance and policy strategies currently shaping biological pest control across Europe and identify how to best adapt them to support biodiversity’s ability to provide pest control resilience. IMPRESS will provide recommendations and tools for how to manage European agricultural landscapes to ensure resilient biodiversity and biological pest control, and will thus help prepare the agricultural sector in Europe for the consequences of climate change.
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