Active management of urban fruit orchard meadows is important for insect diversity

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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/23:96964
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106833" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106833</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106833" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106833</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Active management of urban fruit orchard meadows is important for insect diversity
Original language description
Fruit orchards under different types of management represent the most common agroforestry practice in centralEurope. Traditional fruit orchards with trees usually planted in meadows are at a surplus, providing suitablehabitats for many plant and animal species. We examined the influence of different management and biotopetypes on three insect groups. This study was conducted in thirty orchards across the capital city of the CzechRepublic – Prague (496 km2). We investigated the diversities of butterflies, hymenopterans and beetles. Theirspecies richnesses mainly benefitted from orchard management and was partly higher at the xerothermic sitesthan at the mesic sites. Red-listed species did not show any clear patterns. Open-landscape specialists wereinfluenced by management, while forest species were influenced by habitat type. Generally, orchard abandonmentled to insect biodiversity loss. Therefore, active agricultural management appears to be essential for insectbiodiversity conservation in orchards, and different management and biotope types provide suitable conditionsfor specific species. Mowing and maintaining orchards are two important biodiversity management actions interms of maintaining large-scale and long-term species diversity
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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