Organic farming favours insect-pollinated over non-insect pollinated forbs in meadows and wheat fields.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to determine the relative effects of landscape-scale management intensity, local management intensity and edge effect on diversity patterns of insect-pollinated vs. non-insect pollinated forbs in meadows and wheat fields. Nine landscapes were selected differing in percent intensively used agricultural area (IAA), each with a pair of organic and conventional winter wheat fields and a pair of organic and conventional meadows. Within fields, forbs were surveyed at the edge and in the interior. Both diversity and cover of forbs were positively affected by organic management in meadows and wheat fields. This effect, however, differed significantly between pollination types for species richness in both agroecosystem types (i.e. wheat fields and meadows) and for cover in

SUBMITTER: Batary P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3557276 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature