2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01085.x
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Abstract: Summary 1.In landscapes influenced by anthropogenic activities, such as intensive agriculture, knowledge of the relative importance and interaction of environmental factors on the composition and function of local communities across a range of spatial scales is important for maintaining biodiversity. 2. We analysed five arthropod taxa covering a broad range of functional aspects (wild bees, true bugs, carabid beetles, hoverflies and spiders) in 24 landscapes (4 × 4 km) across seven European countries along gra… Show more

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“…Thus farming practices and the quality and connectivity of habitat patches in the landscape will impact the maintenance of diverse communities of arthropods and other organisms. In a large study of arthropod biodiversity across Europe, Schweiger et al found that land-use intensity explained most of the variability in species data, whereas landscape characteristics (especially connectivity) accounted for most of the variability in body size and trophic guilds (Schweiger et al 2005). They recommend that management efforts to enhance diversity in agricultural landscapes should focus on reducing land-use intensity and enhancing habitat connectivity.…”
Section: Issues Of Scalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus farming practices and the quality and connectivity of habitat patches in the landscape will impact the maintenance of diverse communities of arthropods and other organisms. In a large study of arthropod biodiversity across Europe, Schweiger et al found that land-use intensity explained most of the variability in species data, whereas landscape characteristics (especially connectivity) accounted for most of the variability in body size and trophic guilds (Schweiger et al 2005). They recommend that management efforts to enhance diversity in agricultural landscapes should focus on reducing land-use intensity and enhancing habitat connectivity.…”
Section: Issues Of Scalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ground hunting species require a heterogeneous sward of open patches to search for prey and taller vegetation for refuge (Maelfait and De Keer 1990), whereas orb web weaving spiders select structurally complex vegetation that provides increased web anchorage points (Dielh et al 2013;Langellotto and Denno 2004;McNett and Rypstra 2000). The differences in foraging strategy, activity and substrate utilisation amongst species make grouping spiders into guilds a useful tool for examining functional differences among habitats (Corcuera et al 2015;Schweiger et al 2005). It would be expected that the contrasting structure and differences in relative stocking densities of the non-target habitats in the calcareous grassland matrix will impact both potential niche availability and microclimate, e.g., humidity and temperature stability, thus providing conditions suited to different species or hunting guilds.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous studies have demonstrated that coexisting taxa partition their resources and/or that the compositional similarity between communities is determined by environmental factors, lending support to the nicheassembly model. However, no attempt has been made to investigate whether the amount of resources that reflects relative niche space controls relative taxa abundance and composition in communities (Schweiger et al, 2005). Here, we demonstrate that the relative abundance and composition in patches is significantly related to the relative structure of the vegetation (biomass).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 67%