Wildflower Strips Increase Aculeate Pollinator Diversity but Not Abundance in Agricultural Landscapes with Rapeseed in Crop Rotations DOI Creative Commons
Eduardas Budrys, Anna Budrienė,

Miglė Lazauskaitė

et al.

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(4), P. 263 - 263

Published: April 8, 2025

The decline of pollinators in agricultural environments poses a significant threat to pollination ecosystem services. Wildflower strips are proposed as strategy support pollinator populations and enhance their species richness diversity. We investigated the efficacy flowering plant mixture maintaining aculeate diversity (wild bees, predatory wasps, kleptoparasites) within intensively managed where rapeseed is common rotational crop. Over four years, were counted five times per season using 250 m transect walks. Our results demonstrated that evenness abundance distribution higher sown wildflower strips, whereas mean was greater remnants semi-natural grassland. low assemblage habitat attributed dominance sweat bee Lasioglossum pauxillum, which thrived on mass-flowering concentrated grassland fragments after harvest. conclude enriched with mixtures effectively Furthermore, both preserved patches unmanaged or minimally habitats can essentially contribute services intensive environments.

Language: Английский

Wildflower Strips Increase Aculeate Pollinator Diversity but Not Abundance in Agricultural Landscapes with Rapeseed in Crop Rotations DOI Creative Commons
Eduardas Budrys, Anna Budrienė,

Miglė Lazauskaitė

et al.

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(4), P. 263 - 263

Published: April 8, 2025

The decline of pollinators in agricultural environments poses a significant threat to pollination ecosystem services. Wildflower strips are proposed as strategy support pollinator populations and enhance their species richness diversity. We investigated the efficacy flowering plant mixture maintaining aculeate diversity (wild bees, predatory wasps, kleptoparasites) within intensively managed where rapeseed is common rotational crop. Over four years, were counted five times per season using 250 m transect walks. Our results demonstrated that evenness abundance distribution higher sown wildflower strips, whereas mean was greater remnants semi-natural grassland. low assemblage habitat attributed dominance sweat bee Lasioglossum pauxillum, which thrived on mass-flowering concentrated grassland fragments after harvest. conclude enriched with mixtures effectively Furthermore, both preserved patches unmanaged or minimally habitats can essentially contribute services intensive environments.

Language: Английский

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