AgroEco

Claim · #6495185

Arthropoda (phylum) · herbivory · Angiospermae (class)

herbivory · effect: harmful

eats GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“herbivore abundance negatively affects crop production at 1475 sites”
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

    “Matches Dainese 2019 meta-analytic finding (89 studies, 1475 sites). Class-level crop scope coarse but scope-statement accurate.”

  • entomologist · plausible

    “Arthropod herbivory as crop vulnerability is well-established. organism_type 'insect' slightly off (phylum includes mites) but core claim holds.”

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