Across a wide range of disciplines, mounting evidence points to solutions for addressing the global biodiversity and climate crisis through sustainable land use development. Managing ecosystem services offers promising potential of combining environmental, economic, and social interests in this process. Achieving sustainability, however, requires collaboration across disciplines, or in short “cross-disciplinary” approaches. Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches are often used as synonyms, although they are defined by different levels of integrating results and perspectives. We highlight challenges and opportunities related to these cross-disciplinary approaches by using research on bird- and bat-mediated ecosystem services as a case - with a focus on sustainable agricultural development. Examples from transdisciplinary collaborations show how more integrative and inclusive approaches promote the implementation of basic and applied ecological research into land use practices. Realizing this opportunity requires strong partnerships between science, practice and policy, as well as integration of diverse skills and perspectives. If appropriately funded and guided, this effort is rewarded by improved data quality, more targeted concepts, as well as improvement implementation and impact of sustainability research and practice. We outline a stepwise approach for developing these processes and highlight case studies from bird and bat research to inspire cross-disciplinary approaches within and beyond ecology.

在广泛的学科中，越来越多的证据指出了通过可持续土地利用开发解决全球生物多样性和气候危机的解决方案。管理生态系统服务提供了在这个过程中结合环境、经济和社会利益的有希望的潜力。然而，实现可持续性需要跨学科合作，或者简称为“跨学科”方法。多学科、跨学科和跨学科方法通常被用作同义词，尽管它们是由不同级别的整合结果和观点定义的。我们以鸟类和蝙蝠介导的生态系统服务研究为例，重点关注可持续农业发展，强调与这些跨学科方法相关的挑战和机遇。跨学科合作的例子表明，更具综合性和包容性的方法如何促进基础和应用生态研究在土地利用实践中的实施。实现这一机会需要科学、实践和政策之间的牢固伙伴关系，以及各种技能和观点的整合。如果得到适当的资助和指导，这项努力将得到改善的数据质量、更有针对性的概念以及可持续性研究和实践的改进实施和影响。我们概述了开发这些过程的逐步方法，并突出了鸟类和蝙蝠研究的案例研究，以激发生态学内外的跨学科方法。