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Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types

Arthropod predators are important for ecosystem functioning by providing top-down regulation of insect herbivores. As predator communities and activity are influenced by biotic and abiotic factors on different spatial scales, the strength of top-down regulation (‘arthropod predation’) is also likely...

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Autores principales: Fricke, Ute, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf, Zhang, Jie, Tobisch, Cynthia, Rojas-Botero, Sandra, Benjamin, Caryl S., Englmeier, Jana, Ganuza, Cristina, Haensel, Maria, Riebl, Rebekka, Uhler, Johannes, Uphus, Lars, Ewald, Jörg, Kollmann, Johannes, Redlich, Sarah
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35486623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264881
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author Fricke, Ute
Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
Zhang, Jie
Tobisch, Cynthia
Rojas-Botero, Sandra
Benjamin, Caryl S.
Englmeier, Jana
Ganuza, Cristina
Haensel, Maria
Riebl, Rebekka
Uhler, Johannes
Uphus, Lars
Ewald, Jörg
Kollmann, Johannes
Redlich, Sarah
author_facet Fricke, Ute
Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
Zhang, Jie
Tobisch, Cynthia
Rojas-Botero, Sandra
Benjamin, Caryl S.
Englmeier, Jana
Ganuza, Cristina
Haensel, Maria
Riebl, Rebekka
Uhler, Johannes
Uphus, Lars
Ewald, Jörg
Kollmann, Johannes
Redlich, Sarah
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description Arthropod predators are important for ecosystem functioning by providing top-down regulation of insect herbivores. As predator communities and activity are influenced by biotic and abiotic factors on different spatial scales, the strength of top-down regulation (‘arthropod predation’) is also likely to vary. Understanding the combined effects of potential drivers on arthropod predation is urgently needed with regard to anthropogenic climate and land-use change. In a large-scale study, we recorded arthropod predation rates using artificial caterpillars on 113 plots of open herbaceous vegetation embedded in contrasting habitat types (forest, grassland, arable field, settlement) along climate and land-use gradients in Bavaria, Germany. As potential drivers we included habitat characteristics (habitat type, plant species richness, local mean temperature and mean relative humidity during artificial caterpillar exposure), landscape diversity (0.5–3.0-km, six scales), climate (multi-annual mean temperature, ‘MAT’) and interactive effects of habitat type with other drivers. We observed no substantial differences in arthropod predation rates between the studied habitat types, related to plant species richness and across the Bavarian-wide climatic gradient, but predation was limited when local mean temperatures were low and tended to decrease towards higher relative humidity. Arthropod predation rates increased towards more diverse landscapes at a 2-km scale. Interactive effects of habitat type with local weather conditions, plant species richness, landscape diversity and MAT were not observed. We conclude that landscape diversity favours high arthropod predation rates in open herbaceous vegetation independent of the dominant habitat in the vicinity. This finding may be harnessed to improve top-down control of herbivores, e.g. agricultural pests, but further research is needed for more specific recommendations on landscape management. The absence of MAT effects suggests that high predation rates may occur independent of moderate increases of MAT in the near future.
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spelling pubmed-90538212022-04-30 Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types Fricke, Ute Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf Zhang, Jie Tobisch, Cynthia Rojas-Botero, Sandra Benjamin, Caryl S. Englmeier, Jana Ganuza, Cristina Haensel, Maria Riebl, Rebekka Uhler, Johannes Uphus, Lars Ewald, Jörg Kollmann, Johannes Redlich, Sarah PLoS One Research Article Arthropod predators are important for ecosystem functioning by providing top-down regulation of insect herbivores. As predator communities and activity are influenced by biotic and abiotic factors on different spatial scales, the strength of top-down regulation (‘arthropod predation’) is also likely to vary. Understanding the combined effects of potential drivers on arthropod predation is urgently needed with regard to anthropogenic climate and land-use change. In a large-scale study, we recorded arthropod predation rates using artificial caterpillars on 113 plots of open herbaceous vegetation embedded in contrasting habitat types (forest, grassland, arable field, settlement) along climate and land-use gradients in Bavaria, Germany. As potential drivers we included habitat characteristics (habitat type, plant species richness, local mean temperature and mean relative humidity during artificial caterpillar exposure), landscape diversity (0.5–3.0-km, six scales), climate (multi-annual mean temperature, ‘MAT’) and interactive effects of habitat type with other drivers. We observed no substantial differences in arthropod predation rates between the studied habitat types, related to plant species richness and across the Bavarian-wide climatic gradient, but predation was limited when local mean temperatures were low and tended to decrease towards higher relative humidity. Arthropod predation rates increased towards more diverse landscapes at a 2-km scale. Interactive effects of habitat type with local weather conditions, plant species richness, landscape diversity and MAT were not observed. We conclude that landscape diversity favours high arthropod predation rates in open herbaceous vegetation independent of the dominant habitat in the vicinity. This finding may be harnessed to improve top-down control of herbivores, e.g. agricultural pests, but further research is needed for more specific recommendations on landscape management. The absence of MAT effects suggests that high predation rates may occur independent of moderate increases of MAT in the near future. Public Library of Science 2022-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9053821/ /pubmed/35486623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264881 Text en © 2022 Fricke et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Fricke, Ute
Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
Zhang, Jie
Tobisch, Cynthia
Rojas-Botero, Sandra
Benjamin, Caryl S.
Englmeier, Jana
Ganuza, Cristina
Haensel, Maria
Riebl, Rebekka
Uhler, Johannes
Uphus, Lars
Ewald, Jörg
Kollmann, Johannes
Redlich, Sarah
Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
title Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
title_full Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
title_fullStr Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
title_full_unstemmed Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
title_short Landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
title_sort landscape diversity and local temperature, but not climate, affect arthropod predation among habitat types
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35486623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264881
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