Flower resource and land management drives hoverfly communities and bee abundance in seminatural and agricultural grasslands.

ABSTRACT: Pollination is a key ecosystem service, and appropriate management, particularly in agricultural systems, is essential to maintain a diversity of pollinator guilds. However, management recommendations frequently focus on maintaining plant communities, with the assumption that associated invertebrate populations will be sustained. We tested whether plant community, flower resources, and soil moisture would influence hoverfly (Syrphidae) abundance and species richness in floristically-rich seminatural and floristically impoverished agricultural grassland communities in Wales (U.K.) and compared these to two Hymenoptera genera, Bombus, and Lasioglossum. Interactions between environmental variables were tested using generalized linear modeling, and hoverfly community composition

SUBMITTER: Lucas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5632687 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature