Multi-community effects of organic and conventional farming practices in vineyards.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the response of biodiversity to organic farming is crucial to design more sustainable agriculture. While it is known that organic farming benefits biodiversity on average, large variability in the effects of this farming system exists. Moreover, it is not clear how different practices modulate the performance of organic farming for biodiversity conservation. In this study, we investigated how the abundance and taxonomic richness of multiple species groups responds to certified organic farming and conventional farming in vineyards. Our analyses revealed that farming practices at the field scale are more important drivers of community abundance than landscape context. Organic farming enhanced the abundances of springtails (+ 31.6%) and spiders (+ 84%), had detrimental effects o

SUBMITTER: Ostandie N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature