Grassy field margins and arthropod diversity: a case study on ground beetles and spiders in eastern Austria (Coleoptera: Carabidae; Arachnida: Aranei, Opiliones)

Kromp, Bernhard; Steinberger, Karl-Heinz

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“…The latter obviously adapt to the agricultural management over the long history of cereal cultivation occurring in the area, a phenomenon also observed in other parts of the world (Wallin 1988;Kromp and Steinberger 1992). For the overall conservation of the ground beetle diversity in the landscape around Beijing, the preservation of the heterogeneous landscape must therefore be seen as the most appropriate measure.…”

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“…This is related to a great number of arthropods permanently living in these habitats (Kromp and Steinberger 1992;Thomas and Marshall 1999;Holland and Fahrig 2000), as well as to their role as over-wintering sites (MacLeod et al 2004) and as dispersal corridors (Forman and Baudry 1984). While the importance of semi-natural habitats gets a lot of attention both by scientists and politicians (Thomas and Marshall 1999), little is known about the speed of colonization after their establishment.…”

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Field Margins as Rapidly Evolving Local Diversity Hotspots for Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Northern China

Liu

Axmacher

2006

The Coleopterists Bulletin

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The diversity of carabid assemblages at newly established field margins was compared to the diversity in surrounding fields and woodland habitats at Dongbeiwang village, Beijing. Carabids were sampled using 6 pitfalls per plot at a total of 12 plots in the year 2000. Although sampled only a year after their establishment, field margins harbored the most abundant and diverse carabids assemblages of all sites. More than a quarter of carabid species encountered were furthermore restricted to catches from field margins. Also woodland and fields under rotational wheat/maize cultivation harbored some unique species. Therefore, a short term establishment of field margins is effective in enhancing diversity and abundance of carabids, an important predator group in the agricultural landscape, while only the preservation of a heterogeneous landscape will enable the conservation of the overall species diversity.

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Field Margins as Rapidly Evolving Local Diversity Hotspots for Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Northern China

Liu

Axmacher

2006

The Coleopterists Bulletin

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“…Th e ecological research of the xerophilic harvestmen species distribution was carried out by Kromp and Steinberger (1992) in Austria: in it shows a high occurrence of harvestmen in the ecotones of fi elds and agrocenoses into which harvestmen spread from nearby forest ecosystems (for example hedgerows, orchards, groves etc.). Xerophilic and heliophilic harvestmen were also studied by Stašiov et al (2011) in Slovakia on agricultural soil under diff erent managements, where 8 species of harvestmen were found with the most occurring species Z. crista (303 ex.…”

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“…For example, the harvestmen communities in the mountain forests, and open biotopes in the biosphere reserve in Spain, have been studied (Izaskun and Araceli, 2015). In Austria, the occurrence of xerophilic species of harvestmen in the ecotones of fi elds and agrocoenoses, into which harvestmen spread from nearby forest ecosystems (e. g. hedges, orchards, groves), has been observed (Kromp and Steinberger, 1992). In Ukraine, harvestmen (previously older) faunistic studies are known from Ukrainian Carpathians (Bartoš, 1939;Chevrizov, 1979) and new faunistical paper from Crimea is given by Snegovaya and Staręga (2009).…”

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Structure of Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) Communities in Different, Anthropically Disturbed Beech Ecosystems (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Mihál¹,

Černecká²

2017

Vestnik Zoologii

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Structure of Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) Communities in Diff erent, Anthropically Disturbed Beech Ecosystems (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Mihál, I., Černecká, Ľ. -Th e authors evaluate the impact of diff erent types of forestry management, and other anthropic disturbances, on harvestmen (Opiliones) communities in sub-mountain beech stands in the Western Carpathians. Harvestmen were studied in three main localities, consisting of nine partial plots (Žiar nad Hronom -(1) control closed canopy stand; Jalná -(2) control stand, (3) thinning stand, (4) 11-year old forest clearing, and (5) 2-year old forest clearing; Kováčová -(6) control stand, (7) coppice, (8) 10-year old forest clearing, and (9) 3-year old forest clearing). In total, 16 harvestmen species were found, representing 45.7 % of the 35 harvestmen species range known in Slovakia to date. Th e most abundant species, i. At the partial plot of the 3-year old forest clearing, we found eight harvestmen species and noticed a high number of specimens (5.49) caught in one individual trap, and this was also the highest number among all the nine sites.

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“…Nevertheless, this topic was studied in other countries by Kromp & Steinberger (1992), Epstein et al (2000), Halaj et al (2000), Marasas et al (2001), Ivask et al (2008) and others. Of other invertebrates groups, the influence of agricultural management forms was studied in Lumbricidae (Ivask et al 2008), Diplopoda (Stašiov et al 2007;Wardlea et al 1999), Coleoptera (Marasas et al 2001), Apoidea, and Lepidoptera (Marchão et al 2009).…”

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Influence of agricultural management form on the species structure of harvestman (Opiliones) communities

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The paper is aimed at evaluation of the influence of two different agricultural management forms on harvestman (Opiliones) communities structure in relation to the optimization of land use on the model territory of Agricultural Cooperative (AC) Očová (Central Slovakia). The research was carried out using pitfall trapping through growing seasons from 2005 to 2007. Harvestmen were captured at four pairs of sites (8 sites in total). For each pair of sites the cultivation of the same crop with application of two different forms of agricultural management (conventional form and sustainable form with basic sustainable agro-environmental scheme) was characteristic. In total, 667 individuals of 8 species of the Phalangiidae family were captured during the research. The research results confirm the influence of management form on the structure of harvestman communities only partially. The obtained data indicate that the management form plays a significant role, especially in such agrocoenoses, in which the same crop is cultivated for several years (e.g., sites with alfalfa or permanent lawn), i.e., on the sites without ploughing or use of other similar agrotechnical measures. In these cases, the sites with the sustainable agro-environmental scheme showed higher diversity and equability of harvestman communities than the sites with the conventional form of agrotechnical management. Harvestman communities structure on sites with crop rotation and repeated ploughing was more influenced by additional factors than by the agricultural management form.

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Grassy field margins and arthropod diversity: a case study on ground beetles and spiders in eastern Austria (Coleoptera: Carabidae; Arachnida: Aranei, Opiliones)

Cited by 112 publications

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Field Margins as Rapidly Evolving Local Diversity Hotspots for Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Northern China

Field Margins as Rapidly Evolving Local Diversity Hotspots for Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Northern China

Structure of Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) Communities in Different, Anthropically Disturbed Beech Ecosystems (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Influence of agricultural management form on the species structure of harvestman (Opiliones) communities

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