Urbanization Impacts Top Predators and Alters Biotic Interactions in Predator-Prey-Mutualistic Communities of Urban Dry Grasslands.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization as a major driver of global change modifies biodiversity patterns and the abundance and interactions among species or functional species groups. For example, urbanization can negatively impact both predator-prey and mutualistic relationships. However, empirical studies on how urbanization modifies biotic, particularly multitrophic, interactions are still limited. In this study, we applied a framework focused on a predator-prey-mutualistic relationship involving communities of insect-pollinated vascular plants, pollinators (bees and hoverflies), predatory spiders, and sand lizards as top predators to test (i) the effect of urbanization on abundance and species richness at different trophic levels and (ii) the effect of urbanization on the regulation of biotic interactions using

SUBMITTER: Straka TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11724209 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature