Tillage intensity or landscape features: What matters most for wild bee diversity in vineyards?

Kratschmer, Sophie; Pachinger, Bärbel; Schwantzer, Martina; Paredes, Daniel; Guernion, Muriel; Burel, Françoise; Nicolaï, Annegret; Strauß, Peter; Bauer, Thomas; Kriechbaum, Monika; Zaller, Johann G.; Winter, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2018.07.018

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“…Landscape structures like fallows (Toivonen, Herzon, & Kuussaari, ), hedges (Morandin & Kremen, ), solitary trees, or edges of woods (Nicholson et al, ; Rollin et al, ) provide different foraging sites for wild bees. Furthermore, these structures may compensate for negative effects of low to very low floral resource availability on eusocial wild bees that nest in the inter‐row space of vineyards (Kratschmer et al, ). Spanish vineyards possessed similar average floral resource availabilities as Austrian vineyards, which, according to our results, should benefit eusocial species.…”

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“…The intensity of this disturbance varies among wine-growing areas across Europe according to local pedological and climatic conditions. Wild bees in vineyards have been shown to benefit from biodiversity-friendly management practices and from mosaics of semi-natural elements within the viticultural landscape (Kehinde & Samways, 2014a, 2014bKratschmer et al, 2018). Further, species characterized by certain traits may respond similarly to a certain vegetation management measure or landscape configuration in wine-growing areas.…”

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Response of wild bee diversity, abundance, and functional traits to vineyard inter‐row management intensity and landscape diversity across Europe

Kratschmer

Pachinger

Schwantzer

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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Agricultural intensification is a major driver of wild bee decline. Vineyards may be inhabited by plant and animal species, especially when the inter‐row space is vegetated with spontaneous vegetation or cover crops. Wild bees depend on floral resources and suitable nesting sites which may be found in vineyard inter‐rows or in viticultural landscapes. Inter‐row vegetation is managed by mulching, tillage, and/or herbicide application and results in habitat degradation when applied intensively. Here, we hypothesize that lower vegetation management intensities, higher floral resources, and landscape diversity affect wild bee diversity and abundance dependent on their functional traits. We sampled wild bees semi‐quantitatively in 63 vineyards representing different vegetation management intensities across Europe in 2016. A proxy for floral resource availability was based on visual flower cover estimations. Management intensity was assessed by vegetation cover (%) twice a year per vineyard. The Shannon Landscape Diversity Index was used as a proxy for landscape diversity within a 750 m radius around each vineyard center point. Wild bee communities were clustered by country. At the country level, between 20 and 64 wild bee species were identified. Increased floral resource availability and extensive vegetation management both affected wild bee diversity and abundance in vineyards strongly positively. Increased landscape diversity had a small positive effect on wild bee diversity but compensated for the negative effect of low floral resource availability by increasing eusocial bee abundance. We conclude that wild bee diversity and abundance in vineyards is efficiently promoted by increasing floral resources and reducing vegetation management frequency. High landscape diversity further compensates for low floral resources in vineyards and increases pollinating insect abundance in viticulture landscapes.

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Response of wild bee diversity, abundance, and functional traits to vineyard inter‐row management intensity and landscape diversity across Europe

Kratschmer

Pachinger

Schwantzer

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is among the oldest perennial crops and well adapted to (summer-) dry climates. Vineyard inter-rows provide habitats for a range of plant and above-and belowground animal species, especially when covered with vegetation (Kehinde and Samways 2014;Kratschmer et al 2018). Organisms colonizing these inter-rows provide various ecosystem services (e.g., primary production, pest control, pollination, erosion mitigation and soil nutrient cycling), while their occurrence and abundance are influenced by a range of factors, including tillage practices (Faber et al 2017), weeds and cover crops, surrounding landscape structures and applications of agrochemicals for pest management (Sharley et al 2008;Thomson and Hoffmann 2007).…”

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Effects of vineyard inter-row management on the diversity and abundance of plants and surface-dwelling invertebrates in Central Romania

Fiera

Ulrich

Popescu³

et al. 2020

J Insect Conserv

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Vineyard inter-rows are important biodiversity hotspots within agricultural landscapes, especially when they are covered with vegetation. However, little is known on the effects to management intensity on a broad range of surface-dwelling invertebrates and their interaction with vegetation. We assessed the diversity and activity density of ants, beetles, millipedes, mites, spiders, springtails and woodlice using pitfall traps in vineyards with either high management intensity (HI) consisting of frequently tilled inter-rows or low management intensity (LO) with alternating tillage in every second inter-row. The study was performed in the Târnave wine region in Central Romania. We wanted to know whether, (i) vineyard management intensity affects the diversity of plants and invertebrates, and (ii) local habitat characteristics affect species richness of different functional guilds and taxa. Species richness of some invertebrate taxa (Coleoptera, Araneae, Formicidae) did significantly differ between HI and LO vineyards. Only phytophages (some Coleoptera) increased in species richness and activity density with vegetation cover. Vineyard soil properties (organic matter content, pH, P, and K) did not significantly differ between HI and LO vineyards. We conclude that vineyard inter-row management can affect both the conservation of biodiversity and the provision of biodiversity-driven ecosystem services.

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“…This could lead to an increased abundance of that species in the following year. This result has been underpinned by another wild bee study conducted in this winegrowing region, where the increasing proportion of woods positively affected the total wild bee abundance present in vineyards (Kratschmer et al ., ). It further corresponds to Leong et al .…”

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“…For the urban region, the categories on landscape structures were already specified, because the data were extracted from the geodataviewer of the city of Vienna (Stadt Wien, ). For the vineyard region, data from the BiodivERsA project VineDivers (http://www.vinedivers.eu) were used, in which the landscape categories were defined before field mapping (see Kratschmer et al ., for a detailed method). Therefore it was possible to differentiate between ‘entomophilous crops’ (i.e.…”

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Pollen availability for the Horned mason bee (Osmia cornuta) in regions of different land use and landscape structures

Kratschmer

Petrović

Curto

et al. 2019

Ecological Entomology

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1. Osmia cornuta is a generalist regarding its habitat requirements and is used for pollination in orchards. The species collects pollen from different plant taxa, but pollen richness and pollen quantity in a nest may be affected by land use and landscape structures.2. The availability of pollen resources for O. cornuta was studied across different land use types (one urban, village-structured, agricultural, and viticultural region each) by pollen analysis in the context of landscape structures.3. In total, 16 pollen types were identified in 1180 brood cells of O. cornuta. On average (± SD), the highest pollen richness per region (n = 4) was found in the viticultural region (4.75 ± 0.96) and the lowest in the agricultural region (1 ± 2). Osmia cornuta collected predominantly pollen from the Sorbus-pollen group, which includes Prunus species. Salix was primarily collected in the village-structured and agricultural regions, and Quercus was frequently found in samples from the viticulture region. The highest mean (± SD) number of brood cells per region (n = 4) was found in the viticulture region (136.35 ± 57.45) and the lowest in the agricultural region (20.25 ± 40.5). Increasing proportions of green areas in urban and village-structured regions affected the pollen richness positively, whereas agricultural areas had a negative impact on pollen richness and the number of brood cells.4. It was concluded that the polylectic O. cornuta uses a wide range of flowering plants dependent on their availability. The maintenance of fruit trees as well as willow and oak trees enhances floral resources qualitatively and quantitatively for O.cornuta specifically in intensively farmed agricultural areas.

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Tillage intensity or landscape features: What matters most for wild bee diversity in vineyards?

Cited by 52 publications

References 66 publications

Response of wild bee diversity, abundance, and functional traits to vineyard inter‐row management intensity and landscape diversity across Europe

Response of wild bee diversity, abundance, and functional traits to vineyard inter‐row management intensity and landscape diversity across Europe

Effects of vineyard inter-row management on the diversity and abundance of plants and surface-dwelling invertebrates in Central Romania

Pollen availability for the Horned mason bee (Osmia cornuta) in regions of different land use and landscape structures

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