Wildflower strip establishment supports beneficial ground-dwelling arthropods and pest control but has limited effects on weed seed control and spillover to adjacent fields

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/25:00636358

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7837878.v1" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7837878.v1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7837878.v1" target="_blank" >10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7837878.v1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wildflower strip establishment supports beneficial ground-dwelling arthropods and pest control but has limited effects on weed seed control and spillover to adjacent fields

Original language description

Arthropod declines in agricultural landscapes can threaten biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services. Wildflower strips (WFS) can support biodiversity and, despite the mostly positive effects on pollinators and predatory arthropods, myriapods and ecosystem services like weed seed and ground-level pest predation are less studied. In addition, time after WFS establishment is highly relevant, but most experiments are performed in a single season. Here, we evaluated the effects of WFS on ground-dwelling arthropods (carabids, spiders and myriapods) and ecosystem services (pest and weed seed predation) across three years and three crop types. Using a standardized experimental design with paired control and WFS margins in 12 fields, we assessed arthropods and ecosystem services and their spillover into adjacent fields. We found that WFS enhanced spider and carabid richness and total and rodent pest predation in all crop types, whereas benefits on carabid activity-density and insect predation were only observed at certain crops. Spillover patterns were weak, and only carabids were enhanced in parts of the field neighbouring WFS. The benefits of two-year-old WFS reinforce the important role of perennial WFS in supporting beneficial ground-dwelling arthropod groups while also highlighting that limited spillover hinders the design of general measures to support biodiversity within arable fields.

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

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ISSN

0962-8452

e-ISSN

0962-8452

Volume of the periodical

292

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2048

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001500870900008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105007845829