Effects of uncut hay meadow strips on spiders

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F18%3A00004729" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/18:00004729 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/18:43916563

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0015-8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0015-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0015-8" target="_blank" >10.2478/s11756-018-0015-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of uncut hay meadow strips on spiders

Original language description

Standard management of Czech hay meadows consists of machine mowing twice a year, with the first mowing in or before mid-June and the second mowing 40-60 days later. Here, we aimed to analyse the effects of the first year of implementation of the agri-environment scheme (AES), which consisted of allowing 3-10% of permanent grasslands within each land block to remain unmown until at least August 15, on the abundance and diversity of spiders. We conducted the study at 40 paired sampling sites in three meadow types in northern Czechia. Spiders were sampled using pitfall traps and sweeping, and the plant cover and vascular plant species composition were analysed. Nearly all study sites were associated with 100% vegetation cover, and hosted 209 vascular plant species, of which 12 were threatened. The number of vascular plant species exhibited only modest differences between the study sites under standard and AES-prescribed management. We captured a total of 3889 individuals of 103 spider species. The abundance of spiders was three-times higher at sites subjected to AES management. The number of species was similar irrespective of the management applied, but the species composition differed in response to the management (Sorensen index 0.562-0.736). The AES management was associated with higher abundance of common vegetation-dwelling farmland spiders, but epigeic spiders decreased there or were insensitive to AES management. It remains to be investigated whether threatened vegetation-dwelling spiders may benefit from similar AESs at sites of their occurrence, such as in fen meadows or steppes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-10976S" target="_blank" >GA17-10976S: Do the neonicotinoids have sublethal effects on spiders, harming their ability to regulate agricultural pests?</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biologia (Bratislava)

ISSN

0006-3088

e-ISSN

1336-9563

Volume of the periodical

73

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

43-51

UT code for WoS article

000429143900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85044380158