Claim · #6495182
Arthropoda (phylum) · herbivory · Angiospermae (class)
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“herbivore abundance negatively associated with crop production”
- Authors
- Dainese M., Martin E.A., Aizen M.A., Albrecht M., Bartomeus I., Bommarco R., Carvalheiro L.G., Chaplin-Kramer R., Gagic V., Garibaldi L.A., Ghazoul J., Grab H., Jonsson M., Karp D.S., Kennedy C.M., Kleijn D., Kremen C., Landis D.A., Letourneau D.K., Marini L., Poveda K., Rader R., Smith H.G., Tscharntke T., Winfree R., Zhang W., Zou Y., et al.
- Year
- 2019
- Publication
- Science Advances
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phylum-level coarse but matches global meta-analysis findings (Dainese et al. 2019); arthropod herbivores reduce yields is canonical agroecology.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Arthropod herbivory reducing crop yield is foundational; phylum-level taxon is broad but mechanism (direct feeding) is correct.”
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