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Burgeoning human populations are increasing the demand for land, water, energy, food, and natural resources. Agricultural practices that use annual crop monocultures and high amounts of external inputs, such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, have led to considerable increases in production. However, reliance on these low-diversity/high-external-input systems has negatively impacted human health and natural resources (Goolsby et al. 2001; Hazell and Wood 2008). There is also a growing realization that effective conservation of resources, wildlife, and biodiversity will not occur solely through “land sparing” approaches (Matson and Vitousek 2006; Perfecto and Vandermeer 2010). Hence, there is increased need for achieving productivity and conservation simultaneously on working lands, i.e., multifunctionality (Jordan and Warner 2010).
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