Effectiveness of flowers strips on insect’s restoration in intensive grassland

Hussain, Raja Imran; Walcher, Ronnie; Vogel, Nora; Krautzer, B.; Rasran, Leonid; Frank, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2023.108436

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“…Studies by Franzén and Nilsson [39] showed that K. arvensis flowers are attractive to solitary bees and butterflies. In research by Hussain et al [40], syrphid abundance and species richness were significantly higher in flower strips than in grasslands.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Research on the effectiveness of flower strips is very necessary. Ways must be found to use agricultural land productively, while preserving arthropod habitats and species diversity [40]. Kujawa et al [42] indicate that annual flower strips located in the landscape of northwestern Poland are quickly becoming local refuges for arthropods, which can help control pests in neighboring crops.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, it should be remembered that the colonization of different groups of arthropods is limited both by local vegetation conditions and by the presence of, distance from, and association with source populations, and restoring arthropod diversity is a relatively slow process [40]. It is, however, noteworthy due to the enormous importance of sustainable agriculture in the modern world.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Flower Strips as an Ecological Tool to Strengthen the Environmental Balance of Fields: Case Study of a National Park Zone in Western Poland

Antkowiak,

Kowalska,

Trzciński

2024

Sustainability

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Maintaining biodiversity in agrocenoses is becoming an important element of sustainable development strategies. Flower strips can perform various functions, and their use in the agricultural landscape is a form of a natural mechanism for regulating the agricultural habitat and improving the effectiveness of biological methods of combating crop pests. This manuscript is a case study in Wielkopolska National Park, a valuable wildlife area situated in a temperate zone characteristic of the climate conditions of western Poland. The purpose of this study was to analyze the species composition of plants in a flower strip two years after sowing a mixture of seeds of perennial plants, and to determine the diversity of the collected arthropods depending on the flowering intensity of plants in the strip. The most intense flowering period in the flower strip occurred in June, when the number of flowering plants was the highest and belonged to one species, Trifolium repens (81.52% of all flowering plants). In the same month, the largest share of beneficial arthropods were specimens from Hymenoptera/Parasitica (29.15%), which may indicate their preference for T. repens. The share of beneficial arthropods in relation to all caught arthropods was higher in June (58.74%) than in July (35.16%), with Hymenoptera predominating, represented mainly by Parasitica, which may indicate their preference for species from the genus Trifolium.

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Flower Strips as an Ecological Tool to Strengthen the Environmental Balance of Fields: Case Study of a National Park Zone in Western Poland

Antkowiak,

Kowalska,

Trzciński

2024

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“…Connected strips and patches of prairie on marginal land across agricultural landscapes would benefit butterflies and other species, and ecosystem functions with minimal effect on yield (Kemmerling et al, 2022; Schulte et al, 2017) and should be the focus of future research and policy. Considering other landscape features such as connectivity and proximity to source populations will maximise the potential for prairie strips to benefit biodiversity (Hussain et al, 2023).…”

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Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture

Kemmerling

McCarthy

Brown

et al. 2023

Insect Conserv Diversity

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Butterfly abundances are declining globally, with meta‐analysis showing a rate of −2% per year. Agriculture contributes to butterfly decline through habitat loss and degradation. Prairie strips—strips of farmland actively restored to native perennial vegetation—are a conservation practice with the potential to mitigate biodiversity loss, but their impact on butterfly biodiversity is not known. Working within a 30‐year‐old experiment that varied land use intensity, from natural areas to croplands (maize–soy–wheat rotation), we introduced prairie strips to less intensely managed crop treatments. Treatments included conservation land, biologically based (organic) row crops with prairie strips, reduced input row crops with prairie strips, no‐till row crops and conventional row crops. We measured butterfly abundance and richness: (1) within prairie strips and (2) across the gradient of land use intensity at the plot level. Butterfly abundance was higher within prairie strips than in all other treatments. Across the land use intensity gradient at the plot level, the conservation land treatment had the highest abundance, treatments with prairie strips had intermediate levels and no‐till and conventional treatments had the lowest abundances. Also across entire plots, butterfly richness increased as land use intensity decreased. Treatments with prairie strips, which also had reduced land use intensity, had distinct butterfly communities as they harboured several butterfly species that were not found in other row crop treatments. In addition to the known effects of prairie strips on ecosystem services including erosion control and increased water quality, prairie strips can increase biodiversity in multifunctional landscapes.

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“…Flower cover and plant height (from base until top) were measured as a predictor for syrphid abundance and richness between May and August 2021 and 2022. On each study site, we laid a wooden grid of 1 × 1 m size that was divided into 25 squares [43]. The proportion of total number of squares with at least one nectar-producing flower were counted.…”

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Understanding the Dynamics of Sex-Specific Responses Driven by Grassland Management: Using Syrphids as a Model Insect Group

Hussain,

Ablinger,

Starz

et al. 2024

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Grassland ecosystems, managed by various grassland managements strategies, are the world’s most important land use. However, insect’s sex-specific responses within the context of grassland management have never been considered before. Therefore, our aim was to expand the understanding to the dynamics of grassland managements that drive sex-specific responses by using syrphids as a model insect group. We hypothesize that (1) male and female syrphids exhibit differential habitat preferences in grassland managements, (2) abundance and activity of male and female syrphid levels are influenced by vegetation structure in grassland habitats. Extensive and intensive grassland exhibited significantly different male and female syrphid abundance compared to abandoned grassland. Surprisingly, grassland management had a significant impact on male syrphids richness only, not on female. Flower cover significantly increased male and female syrphid abundance and richness. However, plant height significantly increased female syrphid abundance and richness only. Interestingly, abandoned grassland supports a higher amount of unique female syrphids than male syrphids. The dynamics of grassland management are not unidirectional, but they are multifaceted and multidirectional. Considering the importance of sex-specific responses by insects can provide a more comprehensive understanding of dynamics of grassland managements.

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Effectiveness of flowers strips on insect’s restoration in intensive grassland

Cited by 8 publications

References 71 publications

Flower Strips as an Ecological Tool to Strengthen the Environmental Balance of Fields: Case Study of a National Park Zone in Western Poland

Flower Strips as an Ecological Tool to Strengthen the Environmental Balance of Fields: Case Study of a National Park Zone in Western Poland

Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture

Understanding the Dynamics of Sex-Specific Responses Driven by Grassland Management: Using Syrphids as a Model Insect Group

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