Contrasting Patterns of Plants, Bees, Hoverflies and Spiders in Different Habitats in a Central European Agricultural Landscape.

ABSTRACT: Semi-natural grasslands and their biodiversity decline rapidly, although they are key elements of agricultural landscapes. Therefore, there is a need for the re-establishment of semi-natural grasslands in intensively managed farmlands (e.g., via sowing wildflower seeds). Our knowledge, however, is limited on how different arthropod groups may respond to such newly established wildflower fields. This knowledge gap is especially relevant for the Pannonian biogeographical region, and more generally for Central Europe, where there is little to no evidence so far. We aimed to compare three different habitats (i.e., sown wildflower fields (WFF), semi-natural road verges and adjacent crop fields) in terms of their species and individual numbers and assemblage compositions to reveal differences be

SUBMITTER: Vajna F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11647180 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature