Restoration of insect communities after land use change is shaped by plant diversity: a case study on carabid beetles (Carabidae).

ABSTRACT: There is no doubt about the insect decline currently taking place in ecosystems with large anthropogenic impacts. Thus, there is a need for practices that avoid insect decline and or help to recover insect communities that have already suffered. Plant diversity has been shown to be positively related to insect abundance and diversity and to ecosystem functions provided by insects. However, it remains open if increased plant diversity can help to recover decreased populations. Here, we tested over one decade the effects of plant diversity on the carabid community in a large grassland biodiversity experiment and how plant diversity fostered the establishment of a natural grassland community after conversion of an arable field. There was a dramatic decline in carabid abundance from 2003, the

SUBMITTER: Lange M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905558 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature