Establishment and Maintenance of Power Lines are Important for Insect Diversity in Central Europe.

ABSTRACT: Open habitats are disappearing from European forests. This is mainly due to various management-related practices, such as afforestation and the maintenance of closed canopy plantation forests. Open forests are also declining as a result of the abandonment of traditional forest use practices and natural succession. The effects of the establishment and maintenance of power lines as highly artificial but open habitats in forests on native insect biodiversity remain relatively poorly investigated. We investigated differences in biodiversity between forests and open habitats under power lines in Poland. Namely, we focused on nine insect taxa using the most suitable methods for data collection, i.e., observation and trapping. The studied habitats were forests used for timber production do

SUBMITTER: Plewa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089852 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature