Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects

Abstract Habitats along linear infrastructure, such as roads and electrical transmission lines, can have high local biodiversity. To determine whether these habitats also contribute to landscape-scale biodiversity, we estimated species richness, evenness and phylogenetic diversity of plant, butterfl...

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Autores principales:	Juliana Dániel-Ferreira, Riccardo Bommarco, Jörgen Wissman, Erik Öckinger
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2020
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fc83f922968648c8bfe8061320cb32ae2021-12-02T12:33:54ZLinear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects10.1038/s41598-020-78090-y2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/fc83f922968648c8bfe8061320cb32ae2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78090-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Habitats along linear infrastructure, such as roads and electrical transmission lines, can have high local biodiversity. To determine whether these habitats also contribute to landscape-scale biodiversity, we estimated species richness, evenness and phylogenetic diversity of plant, butterfly and bumblebee communities in 32 km2 landscapes with or without power line corridors, and with contrasting areas of road verges. Landscapes with power line corridors had on average six more plant species than landscapes without power lines, but there was no such effect for butterflies and bumblebees. Plant communities displayed considerable evenness in species abundances both in landscapes with and without power lines and high and low road verge densities. We hypothesize that the higher number of plant species in landscapes with power line corridors is due to these landscapes having a higher extinction debt than the landscapes without power line corridors, such that plant diversity is declining slower in landscapes with power lines. This calls for targeted conservation actions in semi-natural grasslands within landscapes with power line corridors to maintain biodiversity and prevent imminent population extinctions.Juliana Dániel-FerreiraRiccardo BommarcoJörgen WissmanErik ÖckingerNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Juliana Dániel-Ferreira Riccardo Bommarco Jörgen Wissman Erik Öckinger Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
description	Abstract Habitats along linear infrastructure, such as roads and electrical transmission lines, can have high local biodiversity. To determine whether these habitats also contribute to landscape-scale biodiversity, we estimated species richness, evenness and phylogenetic diversity of plant, butterfly and bumblebee communities in 32 km2 landscapes with or without power line corridors, and with contrasting areas of road verges. Landscapes with power line corridors had on average six more plant species than landscapes without power lines, but there was no such effect for butterflies and bumblebees. Plant communities displayed considerable evenness in species abundances both in landscapes with and without power lines and high and low road verge densities. We hypothesize that the higher number of plant species in landscapes with power line corridors is due to these landscapes having a higher extinction debt than the landscapes without power line corridors, such that plant diversity is declining slower in landscapes with power lines. This calls for targeted conservation actions in semi-natural grasslands within landscapes with power line corridors to maintain biodiversity and prevent imminent population extinctions.
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author	Juliana Dániel-Ferreira Riccardo Bommarco Jörgen Wissman Erik Öckinger
author_facet	Juliana Dániel-Ferreira Riccardo Bommarco Jörgen Wissman Erik Öckinger
author_sort	Juliana Dániel-Ferreira
title	Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
title_short	Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
title_full	Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
title_fullStr	Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
title_full_unstemmed	Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
title_sort	linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/fc83f922968648c8bfe8061320cb32ae
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Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects

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