Enhancing flowering plant functional richness improves wild bee diversity in vineyard inter-rows in different floral kingdoms.

ABSTRACT: Wild bees are threatened by multiple interacting stressors, such as habitat loss, land use change, parasites, and pathogens. However, vineyards with vegetated inter-rows can offer high floral resources within viticultural landscapes and provide foraging and nesting habitats for wild bees. Here, we assess how vineyard management regimes (organic vs. conventional; inter-row vegetation management) and landscape composition determine the inter-row plant and wild bee assemblages, as well as how these variables relate to functional traits in 24 Austrian and 10 South African vineyards. Vineyards had either permanent vegetation cover in untilled inter-rows or temporary vegetation cover in infrequently tilled inter-rows. Proportion of seminatural habitats (e.g., fallows, grassland, field margins) a

SUBMITTER: Kratschmer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature