Distribution of ground-dwelling arthropods across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas

Musters, Claire; Wiggers, J.M.R.; Snoo, G.R. de

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109042

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“…During the sampling session we placed a total of 60 arti cial caterpillars in both plant body and ground for measuring both predation rates by natural arthropods present in each farm. Several studies have shown that the ground level predation rate is a critical measurement of predation of natural enemies as beetles such as carabidae, scarabidae and staphylinidae plays important ecological roles as ground dwelling natural enemies of pests in agricultural farms (Musters et al, 2022;Boetzl et al, 2017). The arti cial caterpillars were made out of non-scented and non hardening green plasticine (modeling clay) of size 2.5cm×0.5 cm.…”

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Natural pest regulation along a tropical agricultural landscape gradient: complexity counts

Samajpati,

Basu

2024

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Agricultural intensification is a threat to arthropod natural enemies of crop pests in agricultural landscapes due to multiple reasons. This may disrupt the biological pest regulation in the agro-ecosystems and thereby affect their sustainability. Natural enemies are reliant on natural and semi natural vegetation in the landscape which serves as alternative resources and provide refuge, decline of which may affect pest regulation through both direct and indirect mechanisms. We examined how landscape complexity affects natural arthropod enemies, pest, intraguild predators (Insectivorous birds), predation rate and pest damage at different spatial scales. We modeled the interrelationship between different farm scale parameters through Structural equational models (SEM) at 1000m and 2000m. There was significant positive association between landscape complexity and coccinellidae and parasitic hymenoptera abundance. Arthropod predation rate on artificial plascticine caterpillar also increased significantly with landscape complexity at different spatial scale. Structural equational models revealed latent relationships between different farm level components which were not directly found through simple correlative models. Comprehensive studies incorporating direct and indirect effect of landscape complexity on farm level biodiversity elements is necessary for ecologically intensive farms in the future.

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Natural pest regulation along a tropical agricultural landscape gradient: complexity counts

Samajpati,

Basu

2024

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“…Ground‐dwelling invertebrates, including pollinators, decomposers, and natural enemies of pests, perform important ecosystem services (Li et al., 2014 ; Zhukov et al., 2023 ). Given the serious threat of decreasing soil biodiversity in agricultural farmlands worldwide (Marja et al., 2022 ; Musters et al., 2022 ), the use of novel, automatic, and fine temporal resolution methods to monitor and evaluate soil biodiversity is important for the maintenance of the biodiversity of farmlands. Recently, a robust, non‐invasive, and automatic monitoring method, that is, the use of camera traps, has been proposed for monitoring soil biodiversity in farmlands.…”

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Shooting area of infrared camera traps affects recorded taxonomic richness and abundance of ground‐dwelling invertebrates

Gao,

Sun,

Jiang

et al. 2024

Ecology and Evolution

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Ground‐dwelling invertebrates are vital for soil biodiversity and function maintenance. Contemporary biodiversity assessment necessitates novel and automatic monitoring methods because of the threat of sharp reductions in soil biodiversity in farmlands worldwide. Using infrared camera traps (ICTs) is an effective method for assessing richness and abundance of ground‐dwelling invertebrates. However, the influence that the shooting area of ICTs has on the diversity of ground‐dwelling invertebrates has not been strongly considered during survey design. In this study, data from six ICTs with two shooting areas (A1, 38.48 cm2; A2, 400 cm2) were used to investigate ground‐dwelling invertebrates in a farm in a city on the Eastern Coast of China from 20: 00 on July 31 to 00:00 on September 29, 2022. Over the course of 59 days and 1420 h, invertebrates within 9 taxa, 2447 individuals, and 112,909 ind./m2 were observed from 222,912 images. Our results show that ICTs with relatively large shooting areas recorded relatively high taxonomic richness and abundance of total ground‐dwelling invertebrates, relatively high abundance of the dominant taxon, and relatively high daily and hourly abundance of most taxa. The shooting areas of ICTs significantly affected the recorded taxonomic richness and abundance of ground‐dwelling invertebrates throughout the experimental period and at fine temporal resolutions. Overall, these results suggest that the shooting areas of ICTs should be considered when designing experiments, and ICTs with relatively large shooting areas are more favorable for monitoring the diversity of ground‐dwelling invertebrates. This study further provides an automatic tool and high‐quality data for biodiversity monitoring and protection in farmlands.

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People’s appreciation of colorful field margins in intensively used arable landscapes and the conservation of plants and invertebrates

de Snoo,

van Dijk,

Vletter

et al. 2023

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Distribution of ground-dwelling arthropods across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Natural pest regulation along a tropical agricultural landscape gradient: complexity counts

Natural pest regulation along a tropical agricultural landscape gradient: complexity counts

Shooting area of infrared camera traps affects recorded taxonomic richness and abundance of ground‐dwelling invertebrates

People’s appreciation of colorful field margins in intensively used arable landscapes and the conservation of plants and invertebrates

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