Powerline right-of-way management and flower-visiting insects: How vegetation management can promote pollinator diversity.

ABSTRACT: Loss in the availability of early successional habitat is a threat to pollinator populations. Given that powerline rights-of-way (ROW) must be managed to maintain early successional habitat, preventing vegetation from interfering with electrical lines, they have the potential to provide conservation benefits for wild pollinators. Moreover, it is possible to provide conservation benefits with no additional cost to land managers. We surveyed flower-visiting insects over two years in different vegetation management treatments in a long-term research ROW to determine which best promoted pollinator abundance and species richness. We found that the ROW had stabilized in an early successional state soon after its establishment and that this early successional state could be maintained with low le

SUBMITTER: Russo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787533 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature