Increasing consumption driven by a growing global population and demands for more varied and resource intensive diets has placed unparalleled strain on our agricultural production systems and natural resources. Current agricultural practices rely on fossil fuels, agrochemicals and conversion of new agricultural lands. Yet, yield gains produced through these practices have plateaued in recent years1 and have come at the cost of increasing greenhouse gas emissions, degradation of water quality, widespread pollution, pesticide resistance and unprecedented biodiversity loss. An alternative solution to meet the planet’s growing needs is ecological intensification, increasing production on existing farmlands in ways that causes less harm on the environment through the replacement of anthropogenic inputs with ecosystem services management23. Manipulating and regulating the biotic interactions underpinning the provisioning of ecosystem services by increasing the structural diversity of agroecosystems had been demonstrated to improve crop yields456. In order to implement diversification strategies successfully, it is critical to understand whether agricultural habitats themselves may act as sources of ecosystem services or whether diversification may lead to competition for services among crops. Certain crops may have a disproportionate effect on the flow of ecosystem services due to the large pulse of resources they provide78, and it is essential to understand the effects of these crops on ecosystem service dynamics in order to develop effective management strategies that can be directly implemented by land managers.