Conservation potential of semi-natural habitats for birds in intensively-used agricultural landscapes

Šálek, Martin; Kalinová, Karolína; Reif, Jiří

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126124

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“…Forests and wetlands play a crucial role in supporting and maintaining biodiversity, often serving as steppingstones for species (Panitsa et al, 2021). In agricultural landscapes, semi-natural habitats are important areas that promote agrobiodiversity and provide refuge and food resources for species (Šálek et al, 2022). However, these habitats are progressively disappearing due to intensive agricultural practices (Brückmann et al, 2010; Stoate et al, 2009).…”

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Implications of ecosystem services and ecological network coupling for ecological planning in karst regions of China

Han,

Zhu,

et al. 2023

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, recognizing the need for sustainable development and the protection of ecosystems, the United Nations and international agencies have been actively promoting the protection of the natural environment. The construction of ecological networks (EN), as one of these efforts, emphasizes the connectivity between natural patches and their ability to support ecosystem services (ES). Currently, constructing ecological networks using ecosystem services as a comprehensive evaluation criterion has become one of the important ways to maintain sustainable ecosystems. Karst regions have received much attention due to their fragile ecosystems, and this paper reviews articles from around the world that have studied ecosystem services and ecological networks in these regions. It found that this research is gradually maturing, although the number of published articles on research related to ecological networks is relatively small, with the largest number of papers taking the Chinese Karst region as a study area. Indicator factors for the construction of ecological networks in this region are usually based on ecosystem services, but they are usually not considered comprehensive enough, e.g., the trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services are rarely considered. At the same time, the construction of ecological networks requires dynamic monitoring and optimization on a larger scale in order to provide assistance for longer-term environmental protection.

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Section: Results and Analysismentioning

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Implications of ecosystem services and ecological network coupling for ecological planning in karst regions of China

Han,

Zhu,

et al. 2023

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability

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“…Pollinators were shown to be clearly attracted by new grasslands (Hussain et al 2021 ; Brandl et al 2022 ), which resulted in increased pollination success on site and in adjacent arable fields. Conservation and restoration of existing semi-natural habitats needs to be of high priority, as they have already proven to be key for the biodiversity in agriculturally dominated areas (Plath et al 2021 ; Shi et al 2021 ; Šálek et al 2022 ). Nevertheless, the establishment of permanent species-rich new grasslands should be used as a supplementary agri-environment measure, to enhance pollination and multifunctionality of grassland habitats in agricultural landscapes and contribute to the achievement of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the EU Pollinators Initiative to reverse the decline in wild pollinators by 2030.…”

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New grasslands promote pollination but not biological pest control in nearby arable fields in the short term

Bürgler,

Hussain,

Maas

et al. 2024

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Agricultural intensification is a major threat to farmland biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. Semi-natural habitats are integral to the preservation of farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services, however, the extent in which they contribute to specific services is largely unclear. We studied predation rates of ground-dwelling predatory arthropods, and pollination success within old permanent grasslands, newly established grasslands and arable fields near and far from new grasslands. We evaluated whether grassland restoration can enhance pollination and biological control in crop fields. For this purpose, we established new grassland strips within cereal fields, which directly bordered existing permanent grasslands. We evaluated if the distance to these old and new grasslands affects the delivery of the two ecosystem services within crop fields. We found significantly higher seed numbers and seed weight in sentinel plants placed in old grasslands, new grasslands and nearby arable fields compared to distant arable fields. We also found significantly decreasing seed numbers and seed weight in sentinel plants placed in distant arable fields with increasing distance from old grasslands, while pollination success was not affected by distance in nearby arable fields. Contrary, we did not find any significant effects of new grasslands on biological control. Our study showed that 3 years after establishing grasslands arable fields benefited from the proximity of flower-rich new grasslands through increased pollination success though not regarding biological control. This indicates that, on a short term, establishing new grasslands can support beneficial arthropods in providing ecosystem services such as pollination. Predators, in contrast, might take longer to establish effective populations that denote higher predation rates. Our study provides a baseline for future long-term studies to better evaluate pollination and pest control patterns within arable fields.

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“…At the beginning of the Holocene human transformation of the landscape beyond the wetland, due to the presence of cultivated crops, must also be considered a possibility (Colledge et al, 2018). This would have altered biodiversity and species distribution, and a tantalising indication of the extent of such impacts may have been recorded by the avifaunal assemblage: quail (Coturnix coturnix) is well adapted to managed agricultural environments (Németh et al, 2019;Šálek et al, 2022) and a sudden increase in quail remains is recorded at Shubayqa 6 (Table 1). This may also reflect a practice documented by Emslie (1981), who notes how Pima Indians of southern Arizona snare Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii) in their fields exploiting the bird's attraction to wild and cultivated seeds.…”

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Waterfowl eggshell refines palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and supports multi-species niche construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Levant

Yeomans¹,

Codlin²,

Mazzucato³

et al. 2023

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Utilising multiple lines of evidence for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction improves our understanding of the past landscapes in which human populations interacted with other species. Illuminating such processes is key for a nuanced understanding of fundamental transitions in human history, such as the shift from hunting and gathering to farming, which move beyond simple deterministic interpretations of climate-driven innovation. Avifaunal remains can provide detailed indications of complex multi-species interactions at the local scale. They allow us to infer relationships between human and non-human animals, but also to reconstruct their niche, because many bird species are sensitive to specific ecological conditions and will often relocate and change their breeding patterns. In this paper, we illustrate how novel evidence that waterfowl reproduced at Levantine wetlands, which we obtained through biomolecular archaeology, as well as modern ornithological data, can reveal conditions of wetlands that are conducive for breeding waterfowl. By understanding the interplay between wetland cover cycles and waterfowl ecology, we argue that human modifications to the environment would have promoted wetland productivity inviting waterfowl to remain year-round. Within this landscape of "mutual ecologies", the feedback resulting from the agency of all species is involved in the construction of the human niche.

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Conservation potential of semi-natural habitats for birds in intensively-used agricultural landscapes

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Implications of ecosystem services and ecological network coupling for ecological planning in karst regions of China

Implications of ecosystem services and ecological network coupling for ecological planning in karst regions of China

New grasslands promote pollination but not biological pest control in nearby arable fields in the short term

Waterfowl eggshell refines palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and supports multi-species niche construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Levant

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