ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank all farmers, field and technical assistants, researchers and
funders who contributed to the studies made available for this
synthesis. We thank Matthias Suter, Lukas Pfiffner, Henryk Luka, Mario
Balzan, Michael Garratt and Emily Martin for statistical advice and
inspiring and valuable discussions. Furthermore, we are grateful for
funding by the EU COST-Action FA1307 “SUPER-B” that enable fruitful
discussions with members of the SUPER-B network during the conceptual
and analysis phase of this work. AJC was funded by the Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Syngenta UK as part of
a case award PhD (grant no. 1518739). DAL was supported by the Great
Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (Award
DE-SC0018409), by the National Science Foundation Long-term Ecological
Research Program (DEB 1832042) at the Kellogg Biological Station, and by
Michigan State University AgBioResearch. RI and BB were funded by the
USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program and by
AgBioResearch. EV acknowledges funding from Estonian Research Council
Institutional Research Funding project IUT36-2 and the QuESSA project
funded by the European Union (FB7, grant agreement no. 311879. EV and FD
were funded by The United States Department of Agriculture – National
Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crops Research Initiative
Grant 2011-51181-30673, and by the University of Maine School of Biology
and Ecology. MT was funded by the Hauser and Sur-La-Croix foundations.
SCP was supported through the QuESSA project funded by the European
Union (FB7, grant agreement no. 311879). SGP was supported through the
Insect Pollinators Initiative UK Crop pollination project funded by
BBSRC, Defra, NERC, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust
(BB/1000348/1), and SMOOPS project funded by BBSRC, Worldwide Fruit
Limited, Avalon and Syngenta (BB/P003664/1). MJ acknowledges funding
from the Tertiary Education Commission through the Bio-Protection
Research Centre at Lincoln University, New Zealand and Centre for
Biological Control at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.