Which carabid species benefit from organic agriculture?—a review of comparative studies in winter cereals from Germany and Switzerland

Döring, Thomas; Kromp, Bernhard

doi:10.1016/s0167-8809(03)00077-x

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“…Hence, in line with previous studies (e.g. Barbaro and van Halder, 2009;Döring and Kromp, 2003;Hanson et al, 2016;Ribera et al, 2001;Vandewalle et al, 2010;Woodcock et al, 2010) our results support the use of community traits as indicators of habitat structure and land-use disturbance.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The main farming practices registered in each olive grove included the intensity of fertilization applied by farmers, quantified by kg of nitrogen-potassium-phosphorous per ha per year, the livestock density, quantified by livestock (sheep) units days of grazing per ha per year, the frequency of mowing per year, the frequency of tillage per year and the doses of herbicides (applied to control weeds), fungicides (applied to control olive tree diseases) and insecticides (applied to control olive tree pests), quantified by liters of product, at recommended doses, per ha per year (Appendix A, Table A2 in Supplementary material; Appendix C). These practices are mostly related to fertilization, weed management and pesticide application that influence epigeous carabid beetles in different degrees (Döring and Kromp, 2003).…”

Section: Olive Grove Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, several studies have shown that carabid beetles are influenced by agricultural practices, occurring generally in higher abundance or diversity in less intensive land-use systems, such as organic farming (e.g. Döring and Kromp, 2003;Kromp, 1999). Yet, some species may benefit from higher prey availability in highly productive conventionally managed farms (Diekötter et al, 2010;Martins da Silva et al, 2008;Vanbergen et al, 2005).…”

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“…For instance, good dispersers or species with a preference for open habitats may be favored by agroecosystems dominated by homogenized open areas (Döring and Kromp, 2003), while more sensitive species with large-sized bodies and/or poorer dispersal ability may undergo a negative impact due to landscape simplification (Cardarelli and Bogliani, 2014;Kotze and O'Hara, 2003;Martins da Silva et al, 2008;Petit and Usher, 1998). Also, a landscape configuration driving dispersal limitation among local communities have been increasingly recognized to play an important role in structuring community composition of carabid beetles at larger spatial scales (Driscoll et al, 2010;Niemelä and Spence, 1994;Ulrich and Zalewski, 2007).…”

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Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

Silva

Oliveira

Ferreira

et al. 2017

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A B S T R A C TThe effects of land-use management and environmental features at different scales on carabid beetle diversity and trait structure were assessed across olive groves in northeastern Portugal. We selected organic and integrated olive groves that were distinct in terms of specific management practices, local linear features and landscape configurations. Besides the management intensification levels, differences in carabid diversity and community traits were mainly due to local habitat and ecological linear structures at a finer spatial scale. Carabid community traits related to disturbance, namely traits of body size and species dispersal ability, responded to land-use intensity and particular olive grove features were influencing diversity patterns. Within the olive grove patches, larger and brachypterous species were associated to plots with more dense vegetation cover while macropterous and small-sized species were more associated to open areas. Also, larger carabid species benefitted from higher patch size heterogeneity within the landscape mosaics. Our findings indicate that the effects of farming system is contingent on the specific management practices, local and linear features present in agroecosystems such as olive groves. Particularly, the influence of local features on carabid diversity patterns and community traits linked to dispersal and movement may be crucial in maintaining pest control at a landscape scale.

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“…The relationship between energy flows and biodiversity has been proposed by ecologists based on empirical studies showing that ecosystems with larger amounts of energy entering the food web will be able to support longer food chains and hence greater biodiversity (Thompson et al 2012). In the particular case of agroecosystems, different authors have found that the increase in forage resources is one of the drivers of the biodiversity increase associated with the conversion of conventional farms into organic farms in the present (Döring andKromp 2003, Gabriel et al 2013). A decreasing trend of this EROI indicates a deterioration of the biodiversity fund element.…”

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The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008)

Guzmán¹,

Aguilera²,

García‐Ruiz³

et al. 2018

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-Fernández, J. Infante-Amate, and M. González de Molina. 2018. The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture ABSTRACT. Agrarian metabolism applies the social metabolism framework to agriculture. It focuses on the study of the exchange of material and energy flows between a society and its environment for producing useful biomass. These flows must maintain the fund elements of the agroecosystem in sufficient quantity and of sufficient quality for them to continue providing ecosystem services. This methodology was applied to Spanish agriculture between 1960 and 2008, a period characterized by a deep process of intensification based on external inputs (EIs). We specifically focused on nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), carbon (C), and energy flows, and on the three fund elements that they sustain such as soil, biodiversity, and woodland. The results show that the growing incorporation of EIs has broken the equilibrium between land and biomass uses required by traditional farming, lowering the density of internal energy loops. On cropland, the relative fall in unharvested biomass had a negative effect on both biodiversity and the soil, which reduced the replenishment of organic C between 1960 and 1990. The sharp increase in internal and external flows of biomass for animal feed hardly contributed to increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) between 1990 and 2008 because of the fact that these flows had increasingly lower C:N ratios. The massive importation of N in feed and mineral fertilizers (553 and 1150 Gg in 2000, respectively) increased the surplus and the losses of N, which in turn could have a negative impact on biodiversity, water, and the atmosphere. The scenario constructed without imported animal feed would allow a reduction in the environmental impacts related to the excess of N, with hardly any negative effect on SOC replenishment, and improving energy return rates in the form of total, unharvested, and accumulated phytomass.

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Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) as Indicatorsof Hydrological Site Conditions in Floodplain Grasslands

Gerisch¹,

Schanowski²,

Figura³

et al. 2006

International Review of Hydrobiology

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The relationship of carabid beetle species occurrence patterns and environmental variables characterising the hydrological regime has been studied at the River Elbe in Central Germany. Both flood duration and groundwater depth had major influence on species assemblages as the ordination of study plots mainly followed a gradient along these two variables. The simultaneous ordination of the plots according to species occurrence and environmental parameters showed a highly significant joint structure with the first two axes of a co-inertia analysis, explaining >98% of the variance. A total of 27 species out of 129 caught fulfilled criteria of fidelity and specificity to the plots of the five clusters revealed by their abiotic conditions and were sufficiently abundant to be suitable indicators for one or a combination of clusters of plots. IntroductionNatural features of European floodplains are the result of dynamic geomorphological processes that lead to a high habitat diversity of these ecosystems (GERKEN, 1981;GERKEN, 1992a;WARD, 1998;WOLFERT et al., 2001). Due to their heterogeneity in space (habitat mosaics) and time (habitat change), natural riverine landscapes are characterised by a highly adapted and diverse flora and fauna (ROBINSON et al., 2002). However, in recent decades Central European floodplains were affected by a severe decline in biodiversity (GODREAU et al., 1999), due to loss of habitats (and thus species) mainly caused by changed water regimes and increased land use pressure on these ecosystems. Hence, floodplains are considered as landscapes with high conservation value and protection needs and have become a focus of conservation research (FOECKLER and BOHLE 1991;GERKEN, 1992b;AMOROS and PETTS, 1993;YOUNG, 2001;JESSEL, 2005;SCHOLZ et al., 2005).Floodplain management and conservation requires a sound understanding of species-environment relationships and suitable bioindicators to assess and monitor ecological conditions, since parameters characterising the hydrological regime are time consuming to measure and

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Which carabid species benefit from organic agriculture?—a review of comparative studies in winter cereals from Germany and Switzerland

Cited by 77 publications

References 14 publications

Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system

The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008)

Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) as Indicatorsof Hydrological Site Conditions in Floodplain Grasslands

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