Rural agroforestry artifacts in a city: determinants of spatiotemporally continuous fruit orchards in an urban area

Janeček, V.; Rada, Patrik; Rom, Jiří; Horák, Jakub

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2019.03.004

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“…Traditional fruit orchards might be depicted as grasslands with scattered trees (Plieninger et al 2015) or forests with very sparse canopies (Horak 2014a). This depends on the density of planted trees and the stamina of the fruit tree species (Janeček et al 2019) Therefore, from this perspective, it is not surprising that any type of orchard management has a positive effect. On the other hand, intensi cation of mowing regimes is also decreasing biodiversity (Uchida and Ushimaru 2014).…”

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Active Management of Fruit Orchard Meadows Under The Influence of Suburbanization is Important for Insect Diversity

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Fruit orchards under different types of management represent the most common agroforestry practice in central Europe. Traditional fruit orchards with trees usually planted in meadows are at a surplus, providing suitable habitats for many plant and animal species. We examined the influence of different management and biotope types on three insect groups. This study was conducted in thirty orchards across the capital city of the Czech Republic – Prague (496 km²). We investigated the diversities of butterflies, hymenopterans and beetles. Their species richnesses mainly benefitted from orchard management and were partly higher at xerothermic sites than at mesic sites. Red-listed species did not show any clear patterns. Open-landscape specialists were influenced by management, while forest species were influenced by habitat type. Generally, orchard abandonment led to insect biodiversity loss. Therefore, active agricultural management appears to be essential for insect biodiversity conservation in orchards, and different management and biotope types provide suitable conditions for specific species. Mowing and maintaining orchards are two important biodiversity management actions in highly human-populated landscapes.

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“…The habitat area or landscape context of the orchard may be another important factor (Steffan-Dewenter 2003). In this study, we are investigating traditional fruit orchards in the large area of a million-person city that includes more than one hundred freely accessible orchard meadows (Janeček et al 2019).…”

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Active Management of Fruit Orchard Meadows Under The Influence of Suburbanization is Important for Insect Diversity

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“…The orchards were characterized by regular distances between trees and almost regular tree crowns. The majority of trees were growing on vigorous rootstock and were grafted to the height of an adult man (i.e., approximately 1.8-2 m above the ground) [17]. The total area of traditional fruit orchards did not exceed 1% of the study area, and thus they represented marginal landscape patches.…”

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Disentangling the Roles of Topography, Patch, and Land Use on Conservation Trait Status of Specialist Birds in Marginal Forest Land Use Types

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2020

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One of the main questions in ecology and conservation is how organisms are governed and affected by their traits within the context of abiotic gradients. The main question of our study addresses how patch, topography, and land use influence conservation trait status (rarity and red-list index) of birds generally, and of farmland and woodland specialists specifically, in marginal forest landscape types. We sampled birds from 68 traditional fruit orchards existing as remnants of agroforestry within the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic during two consecutive years. We recorded 57 bird species, of which 31 species were forest dwellers and 16 farmland dwellers. Topographical predictors played the most significant role in influencing traits of the bird community as a whole. Farmland bird traits indicated the most balanced values, as they were significantly influenced by all studied predictor sets. Their responses nevertheless differed among the studied traits and also showed a more complex pattern because the values of interaction between some predictor categories were relatively high. Traits of woodland birds were most influenced by the patch configuration. We found that a structurally diversified marginal habitat type of traditional fruit orchards is able to promote a number of specialist species and also reveals important relationships between bird conservation traits and different predictor sets. Researchers should pay more attention to the conservation traits of birds and their interactions with environmental predictors. Furthermore, conservationists should be more attentive to the biodiversity value and sustainable management of traditional fruit orchards.

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“…Therefore, seminatural grassland habitats, such as meadows, lawns, domestic gardens, and public parks, play important roles in native biodiversity within cities (Albrecht & Haider, 2013;Braschler et al, 2021;Loram et al, 2007;Smith et al, 2005Smith et al, , 2006. Moreover, similar habitats can play an important role for humans and in the sustainable development of cities (Hor ak et al, 2018;Janeček et al, 2019).…”

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High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands

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Urbanized areas are rapidly expanding into a variety of habitats. Urbanization and suburbanization are often associated with changes in biodiversity, which are naturally influenced by biotic interactions and abiotic habitat characteristics. The main cause of changes caused by suburbanization is fragmentation. Its impacts vary between animals with different dispersal abilities. We focused on studying the responses of three taxa with different dispersal abilities: birds as a relatively high‐dispersal taxon, medium‐dispersal butterflies, and low‐dispersal land snails. We studied how biotic factors as well as habitat structural and fragmentation characteristics explain the community composition of the three study taxa in urban grasslands in the city of Pardubice (Czech Republic). Birds were the most species‐rich taxon followed by butterflies. Land snails had species‐poor grassland communities. Species composition analysis indicated species overlap among the studied taxa. Bird species composition covaried with butterfly species richness and reciprocally. Both taxa were significantly influenced by the amount of woody vegetation within the grassland. Bird community composition was also influenced by fragmentation characteristics, namely the distance to the nearest built‐up area. Urban growth most likely leads to changes in the characteristics of animal communities associated with former lowland natural grasslands, deteriorating the communities of low‐dispersal land snails while allowing birds that have generally higher dispersal abilities to thrive. Our results show that in assessing the impact of urbanization on biodiversity, attention should also be paid to low‐dispersal animal taxa.

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Rural agroforestry artifacts in a city: determinants of spatiotemporally continuous fruit orchards in an urban area

Cited by 14 publications

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Active Management of Fruit Orchard Meadows Under The Influence of Suburbanization is Important for Insect Diversity

Active Management of Fruit Orchard Meadows Under The Influence of Suburbanization is Important for Insect Diversity

Disentangling the Roles of Topography, Patch, and Land Use on Conservation Trait Status of Specialist Birds in Marginal Forest Land Use Types

High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands

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