Integrated vegetation management within electrical transmission landscapes promotes floral resource and flower-visiting insect diversity.

ABSTRACT: Electrical transmission rights-of-way are ubiquitous and critical infrastructure across the landscape. Active vegetation management of these rights-of-way, a necessity to deliver electricity more safely, maintains these landscape features as stages of early successional habitat, a rarity in many regions, making these areas viable movement corridors for many taxa. The goals of this study were to (i) evaluate the effects of different electrical transmission landscape management practices on flowering plant and flower-visiting insect diversity parameters and (ii) generate conservation management inferences for these landscapes. In this study we tested the impact of three vegetation management levels across 18 electrical transmission sites. We evaluated the effects of treatment on bloom abunda

SUBMITTER: Kimmel CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11338444 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature