The Impact of Landscape Complexity on Invertebrate Diversity in Edges and Fields in an Agricultural Area

Invertebrate diversity is important for a multitude of ecosystem services and as a component of the larger ecological food web. A better understanding of the factors influencing invertebrate taxonomic richness and diversity at both local and landscape scales is important for conserving biodiversity...

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Autores principales: Evans, Tracy R., Mahoney, Meredith J., Cashatt, Everett D., Noordijk, Jinze, de Snoo, Geert, Musters, C. J. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26848691
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7010007
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author Evans, Tracy R.
Mahoney, Meredith J.
Cashatt, Everett D.
Noordijk, Jinze
de Snoo, Geert
Musters, C. J. M.
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description Invertebrate diversity is important for a multitude of ecosystem services and as a component of the larger ecological food web. A better understanding of the factors influencing invertebrate taxonomic richness and diversity at both local and landscape scales is important for conserving biodiversity within the agricultural landscape. The aim of this study was to determine if invertebrate richness and diversity in agricultural field interiors and edges in central Illinois, USA, were related to the complexity of the surrounding landscape. Our results show taxonomic richness and diversity in field edges is positively related to large scale landscape complexity, but the relationship is negative for field interiors. These unexpected results need further study.
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spelling pubmed-48087872016-04-04 The Impact of Landscape Complexity on Invertebrate Diversity in Edges and Fields in an Agricultural Area Evans, Tracy R. Mahoney, Meredith J. Cashatt, Everett D. Noordijk, Jinze de Snoo, Geert Musters, C. J. M. Insects Article Invertebrate diversity is important for a multitude of ecosystem services and as a component of the larger ecological food web. A better understanding of the factors influencing invertebrate taxonomic richness and diversity at both local and landscape scales is important for conserving biodiversity within the agricultural landscape. The aim of this study was to determine if invertebrate richness and diversity in agricultural field interiors and edges in central Illinois, USA, were related to the complexity of the surrounding landscape. Our results show taxonomic richness and diversity in field edges is positively related to large scale landscape complexity, but the relationship is negative for field interiors. These unexpected results need further study. MDPI 2016-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4808787/ /pubmed/26848691 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7010007 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Evans, Tracy R.
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The Impact of Landscape Complexity on Invertebrate Diversity in Edges and Fields in an Agricultural Area
title The Impact of Landscape Complexity on Invertebrate Diversity in Edges and Fields in an Agricultural Area
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title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Landscape Complexity on Invertebrate Diversity in Edges and Fields in an Agricultural Area
title_short The Impact of Landscape Complexity on Invertebrate Diversity in Edges and Fields in an Agricultural Area
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26848691
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7010007
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