Human-Mediated Land Use Change Drives Intraspecific Plant Trait Variation.

ABSTRACT: In the Anthropocene, more than three quarters of ice-free land has experienced some form of human-driven habitat modification, with agriculture dominating 40% of the Earth's surface. This land use change alters the quality, availability, and configuration of habitat resources, affecting the community composition of plants and insects, as well as their interactions with each other. Landscapes dominated by agriculture are known to support a lower abundance and diversity of pollinators and frequently larger populations of key herbivore pests. In turn, insect communities subsidized by agriculture may spill into remaining natural habitats with consequences for wild plants persisting in (semi) natural habitats. Adaptive responses by wild plants may allow them to persist in highly modified landsc

SUBMITTER: Schroeder H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7840540 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature