Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas

The abundance of insects has been strongly decreasing over the last decades, at least in the temperate zones of North America and Europe. This decrease has generally been attributed to increased human activity, especially increased agricultural production. Therefore, one would expect that insect abu...

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Autores principales:	C.J.M. Musters, Tracy R. Evans, J.M.R. Wiggers, Maarten van 't-Zelfde, Geert R. de Snoo
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Abundance Census techniques Distance to (semi)natural areas Landscape complexity Spatial distribution Spatial level of scale Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0f93f8187e8b4f82aa10cb2463fc1bad2021-12-01T04:55:09ZDistribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107889https://doaj.org/article/0f93f8187e8b4f82aa10cb2463fc1bad2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21005549https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XThe abundance of insects has been strongly decreasing over the last decades, at least in the temperate zones of North America and Europe. This decrease has generally been attributed to increased human activity, especially increased agricultural production. Therefore, one would expect that insect abundance is spatially distributed according to human land use, more specifically that the abundance of insects in agricultural fields should be affected by the distance to (semi)natural areas. We tested this expectation on an extensive dataset of flying insects from Illinois, USA, and the Netherlands, Europe. Flying insects were collected with yellow sticky boards in agricultural fields at distances up to 566 m from (semi)natural areas. We did not find any effect of distance to (semi)natural area on the abundance of flying insects, after correcting for the confounding variables ‘landscape complexity’, ‘vegetation height’ and ‘plot locations’ (interior vs edge of the field). One might prematurely infer from this that (semi)natural areas do not affect flying insect abundance. We argue that knowing that flying insects are highly mobile, both active and passive, although sticky boards sample local insect abundance, abundance may be homogenized over a relatively large area in open landscapes. Therefore, the study of the effect of nature conservation management on flying insects should be done on spatially large scales, e.g., the landscape level.C.J.M. MustersTracy R. EvansJ.M.R. WiggersMaarten van 't-ZelfdeGeert R. de SnooElsevierarticleAbundanceCensus techniquesDistance to (semi)natural areasLandscape complexitySpatial distributionSpatial level of scaleEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 129, Iss , Pp 107889- (2021)
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topic	Abundance Census techniques Distance to (semi)natural areas Landscape complexity Spatial distribution Spatial level of scale Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	Abundance Census techniques Distance to (semi)natural areas Landscape complexity Spatial distribution Spatial level of scale Ecology QH540-549.5 C.J.M. Musters Tracy R. Evans J.M.R. Wiggers Maarten van 't-Zelfde Geert R. de Snoo Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
description	The abundance of insects has been strongly decreasing over the last decades, at least in the temperate zones of North America and Europe. This decrease has generally been attributed to increased human activity, especially increased agricultural production. Therefore, one would expect that insect abundance is spatially distributed according to human land use, more specifically that the abundance of insects in agricultural fields should be affected by the distance to (semi)natural areas. We tested this expectation on an extensive dataset of flying insects from Illinois, USA, and the Netherlands, Europe. Flying insects were collected with yellow sticky boards in agricultural fields at distances up to 566 m from (semi)natural areas. We did not find any effect of distance to (semi)natural area on the abundance of flying insects, after correcting for the confounding variables ‘landscape complexity’, ‘vegetation height’ and ‘plot locations’ (interior vs edge of the field). One might prematurely infer from this that (semi)natural areas do not affect flying insect abundance. We argue that knowing that flying insects are highly mobile, both active and passive, although sticky boards sample local insect abundance, abundance may be homogenized over a relatively large area in open landscapes. Therefore, the study of the effect of nature conservation management on flying insects should be done on spatially large scales, e.g., the landscape level.
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author	C.J.M. Musters Tracy R. Evans J.M.R. Wiggers Maarten van 't-Zelfde Geert R. de Snoo
author_facet	C.J.M. Musters Tracy R. Evans J.M.R. Wiggers Maarten van 't-Zelfde Geert R. de Snoo
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title	Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
title_short	Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
title_full	Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
title_fullStr	Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
title_full_unstemmed	Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
title_sort	distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/0f93f8187e8b4f82aa10cb2463fc1bad
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Distribution of flying insects across landscapes with intensive agriculture in temperate areas

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