Surveying the arable plant diversity of conventionally managed farmland: a comparison of methods.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural intensification has led to drastic population declines in Europe's arable plant vegetation, and continuous monitoring is a prerequisite for assessing measures to increase and conserve remnant populations of endangered arable plant species. Unfortunately, strong variation in plot sizes and in-field locations makes comparison of current arable plant monitoring approaches difficult. This study compares different relevé approaches in conventionally managed arable fields in Northwest German farmland with respect to plant species detection success and time expenditure. We compared species detection rate and expenditure of time of six different relevé types in 45 conventionally managed arable fields (each 15 fields of wheat, maize, and rapeseed): field "Interior" plots (50 × 2 m); fi

SUBMITTER: Wietzke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8076134 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature