Hedgerows support rich communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in upland agricultural landscape

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.05.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.baae.2020.05.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hedgerows support rich communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in upland agricultural landscape

Original language description

Hedgerows play important roles in agricultural landscapes and they increase biodiversity by providing habitat refugia for species sensitive to agricultural disturbance. We have studied the characteristics of the communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) inhabiting hedgerows. Harvestmen are terrestrial arachnids associated with soil surface and subsurface and sensitive to landuse and disturbance. We were specifically interested in quantifying how hedgerow characteristics (e.g., elevation, length, width, connectivity, and plant diversity) affect harvestman diversity and community composition. We expected harvestman diversity and community composition to be positively related to both hedgerow size (area, length, width) and biological attributes of hedgerows (e.g., connectivity, plant community diversity). We surveyed hedgerow characteristics and harvestman communities of 20 hedgerows in an upland agricultural landscape in the Western Carpathians. Hedgerow characteristics were measured in the field or derived from GIS layers and we used correlation and ordination methods to relate them to harvestman community metrics. We found surprisingly high taxonomic richness of harvestmen within the studied hedgerows (15 species). Importantly, the Shannon index of harvestman communities was positively related to hedgerow length and hedgerow tree layer species richness and diversity. Harvestman community composition varied with hedgerow area and width. Despite their small total area, hedgerows represented an important habitat for diverse harvestman communities and hedgerow attributes such as size and tree diversity significantly affected the composition and the Shannon index of harvestman communities. Thus, greater lengths and widths of hedgerows can provide habitats for a higher Shannon index of harvestman communities, within surrounding agricultural landscapes. (C) 2020 Gesellschaft fiir Okologie. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Basic and Applied Ecology

ISSN

1439-1791

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

SEP 2020

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

73-82

UT code for WoS article

000570896100009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089597354