Crop identity and memory effects on aboveground arthropods in a long-term crop rotation experiment.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural landscapes are globally dominated by monocultures under intensive management. This is one of the main reasons for biodiversity loss and insect population decline in many regions all over the world. Agroecosystem biodiversity in these areas can be enhanced by cropping system diversification, such as crop rotations. Yet, long-term studies on effects of crop rotations on aboveground agrobiodiversity are lacking. We set up a 10-year long-term crop rotation experiment in Central Germany and monitored the temporal dynamics of aboveground arthropods over a full cultivation period to investigate influence of current and preceding crop identity and cropping system diversification on activity density, species richness, and community structure. We found that species composition was stron

SUBMITTER: Meyer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662258 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature