Frontiers inEcology and the Environment Maximizing arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in agricultural

This article is citable (as shown above) and is released from embargo once it is posted to the Frontiers e-View site (www.frontiersinecology.org). © The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org Please note: This article was downloaded from Frontiers e-View, a service that publishes fully edited and formatted manuscripts before they appear in print in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Readers are strongly advised to check the final print version in case any changes have been made. esa © The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org Conservation of beneficial arthropods in agriculturallandscapes is increasingly justified based on the value of the services they provide to society. The annual value of natural enemies and native pollinators to agriculture has recently been estimated at nearly $8 billion in the US alone (Losey and Vaughn 2006). These arthropod-medi-ated ecosystem services (AMES) include biological con-trol of insect pests, worth $4.5 billion, and pollination o