Long‐term developments in the carabid and staphylinid (Col., CArabidae and Staphylinidae) fauna during conversion from conventional to bilogivcal farming

Andersen, A.; Eltun, R.

doi:10.1046/j.1439-0418.2000.00438.x

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“…Purtauf et al (2005) found no difference in carabid species richness or activity density between organic and conventional farms. However, Andersen and Eltun (2000) found H. rufipes increased with organic conversion. It is primarily a seed predator, notably of grass seeds, and the increase in grassland might explain the increased catch numbers.…”

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Effects of agri-environment schemes in a long-term ecological time series

Taylor

Morecroft

2009

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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We investigated the impact of agri-environment schemes, including organic farming, on contrasting taxa, when the management of a Southern English farm was changed in the middle of a 12 year time series for an ecosystem monitoring programme. Plant species richness, including butterfly larval food plants, increased, whilst grassland productivity decreased. There was no overall difference in butterfly or carabid beetle abundance or species richness after the management changes, but some individual species increased significantly. Moth abundance and species richness significantly increased following changes in management. There were significant longer term increases in butterfly and carabid populations from when monitoring started in 1994, which continued through the change in management. This contrasted with national trends over the same period. Warmer summers generally increased invertebrate abundance, but there was no significant trend in weather variables for the years following the change in management. This study corroborates results from short term comparison of contrasting farms and demonstrates measurable benefits to biodiversity from the implementation of agri-environment schemes, which continue to increase over at least five years.

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confidence: 90%

Effects of agri-environment schemes in a long-term ecological time series

Taylor

Morecroft

2009

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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“…Although many authors studied the European staphylinid fauna (Galli 1985;Reede 1985;Dennis et al 1990;Majzlan and Holecová 1993;Wardle et al 1993;Heyer 1994;Krooss and Schaefer 1998;Andersen 1991Andersen , 2000Perner and Malt 2002), it is still little known about their community structure in agro-ecosystems. Andersen (1991) presented a list of staphylinid beetles occurring in spring barley, cabbage, carrot, potato, strawberries and grassland fields in Norway.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Aloconota gregaria (Erichson), Anotylus rugosus (F.) Atheta fungi (Gravenhorst), Amischa analis (Gravenhorst), Tachinus signatus (Gravenhorst) and Philonthus cognatus (Stephens) were most often found. Data about Staphylinid beetles from cereal ecosystems in Europe are frequent (Dennis et al 1990;Krooss and Schaefer 1998;Andersen 2000;Perner and Malt 2002). In wheat the most abundant species were Philonthus cognatus (Stephens), Tachyporus hypnorum (F.), T. chrysomelinus (L.), T. obtusus (L.) and Stenus biguttatus (L.).…”

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Rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) communities in transgenic Bt (MON810) and near isogenic maize

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Abstract:The dominance, diversity and activity density of rove beetles were studied in Central European apple and pear orchards. Altogether 6 877 individuals, belonging to 271 species and 11 subfamilies were collected. Thirteen species presented a relative abundance from 9 to 2% and amounted to almost 56% of all staphylinids recorded. In dominance order they were: Dinaraea angustula (Gyllenhal), Omalium caesum Gravenhorst, Drusilla canaliculata (F.), Sphenoma abdominale Mannerheim, Palporus nitidulus (F.), Xantholinus linearis (Olivier), Dexiogya corticina (Erichson), Coprochara bipustulata L., Mocyta orbata (Erichson), Oligota pumilio Kiessenwetter, Xanthlinus longiventris (Olivier), Tachyporus hypnorum (F.) and Pycnota vicina (Kraatz). The alpha diversity of staphylinids for different environmental conditions was relatively similar but the Shannon-Weiner Index (H) was higher than of other similar studies. However, the activity density was higher in pear, in sand and in abandoned plantations; under different environmental conditions this could not be considered uniform in time. After the cumulative studies on the population dynamics, one can conclude that the highest number of species can be found in spring and in summer. Species D. canaliculata and P. nitidulus presented the similar seasonal dynamics in orchards located in different environmental areas, while O. caesum had the same activity density both in apple and pear orchards.

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“…Orientation of their studies can bee divided in several directions: (1) study of population and community structure in different crops (Skuhravý & Novák 1957;Skuhravý et al 1959;Štepanovičová & Beláková 1960;Štusák 1962;Petruška 1966Petruška , 1971Petruška , 1986Petruška , 1987Petruška , 1988Obrtel 1969;Novák 1972;Andersen 1999a;Basedow et al 1976;Sekulić et al 1973;Ericson 1978;Sharova 1983;Honěk 1997;Petřval-ský & Porhajašová 2002, Porhajašová 2002, (2) study of influence of different pest control, fertilization or cultivation practices and pollution (Pauer 1975;Šustek 1985, 1990, 1994aLővei 1984;Purvis & Currey 1984;Kabacik-Wasilik 1986;Kromp 1989Kromp , 1990Fadl et al 1996;Pavuk et al 1997;Andersen 1999b;Andersen & Eltun 2000) or (3) study of influence of landscape vegetation spatial structure on fauna in neighboring fields (Boháč & Pospíšil 1984;Gruttke 1991;Kromp & Steinberger 1992;Šustek 1992, 1994b. Influence of input of manure or slurry on field ground beetle fauna was studied by Kabacik-Wasilik (1986), Purvis & Currey (1984), …”

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confidence: 99%