Effects of habitat management on vegetation and above-ground nesting bees and wasps of orchard meadows in Central Europe

By I. Steffan‐Dewenter, K. Leschke. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2003

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We studied the vegetation, stand structure and communities of above-ground nesting bees and wasps in 45 orchard meadows that were grazed, mown or abandoned (15 of each) in an agricultural landscape near Göttingen, Germany. Total species richness of plants was significantly lower and the proportion of dead wood was significantly higher on abandoned meadows compared to mown or grazed meadows. Species richness of bees, eumenid wasps and sphecid wasps did not differ between the three management types. Abundance of sphecid wasps was significantly higher on abandoned than on managed orchard meadows. Landscape context did not affect management type. The results suggest that management practises affect vegetation more significantly than the studied insect groups.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant-pollinator biodiversity and pollination services in a complex mediterranean landscape (2006, background): “Environmentally-friendly management of temperate orchards in Europe has resulted in more diverse plantpollinator communities (Steffan-Dewenter and Leschke, 2003), and a similar situation may be achievable in olive groves, though olives themselves do not require biotic pollination.”
Effects of ground cover (straw and compost) on the abundance of natural enemies and soil macro invertebrates in vineyards (2007, background): “Single invertebrate taxa often show differences under management practices ( Holland & Luff, 2000; Minarro & Dapena, 2003; Steffan-Dewenter & Leschke, 2003; Bolduc et al. , 2005 ), but they do not indicate the potential overall effects of management practices on the crop.”
Pollination services from field-scale agricultural diversification may be context-dependent (2015, background): “As a result, re-diversification of agricultural areas has been proposed as a means of bolstering pollination services from these alternate pollinators (Steffan-Dewenter and Leschke, 2003; Kremen et al., 2007; Tscharntke et al., 2005; Brosi et al., 2008; Holzschuh et al., 2008; Winfree, 2010; Garibal”
Effects of vineyard management on biodiversity at three trophic levels (2010, background): “To date, few studies in perennial crops have compared the response of communities to different management regimes (but see Hadjicharalampous et al., 2002; Steffan-Dewenter and Leschke, 2003; Cárdenas et al., 2006; Isaia et al., 2006; Peverieri et al., 2009).”
Intensification of agriculture, landscape composition and wild bee communities: a large scale study in four European countries. (2010, background): “, 2006) but also some more restricted groups among bees like bumblebees (Carvell, 2002) or trap nesting bees (Kruess and Tscharntke, 2002; Steffan-Dewenter and Leschke, 2003).”