Contrasting responses of arable spiders to the landscape matrix at different spatial scales

By Martin Schmidt, Carsten Thies, Wolfgang Nentwig, T. Tscharntke. 2007

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Aim  Animal communities can be influenced by the composition of the surrounding landscape through immigration. Depending on habitat preferences, however, the effect of the landscape matrix can be positive or negative and can vary with scale. We tested this idea with arable spiders and tried to infer dispersal distances from relationships between local density and landscape composition at different spatial scales.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• Habitat manipulation to mitigate the impacts of invasive arthropod pests (2010, background): “Local management may increase the density of a few common species whereas species richness often depends more on landscape composition (Roschewitz et al. 2005; Schmidt et al. 2005; Schmidt et al. 2008).”
• Vegetation increases the abundance of natural enemies in vineyards (2009, background): “The proportion of non-crop land in an agricultural landscape has been shown to influence the abundance of a range of natural enemies such as parasitoids (Thies and Tscharnkte, 1999) and spiders (Schmidt et al., 2008).”
• The effect of semi-natural habitats on aphids and their natural enemies across spatial and temporal scales (2014, background): “Spatial scales at which species respond to landscape heterogeneity revealed different responses according to species or groups (Purtauf et al., 2004; Schmidt et al., 2008).”
• A spatial scale assessment of habitat effects on arthropod communities of an oceanic island (2009, result): “Subsequently, we determined habitat influence according to spatial scale by a simple multiple scale approach similar to the one followed in other studies (Steffan-Dewenter et al., 2002; Schmidt et al., 2008).”
• Are spiders reacting to local or landscape scale effects in Hungarian pastures (2008, background): “Landscape composition is important in determining spider diversity in cereal fields because many spider species need semi-natural habitats for refuge and overwintering (Clough et al., 2005; Schmidt et al., 2005, 2008; O¨ berg et al., 2007).”
• Responses of plant, insect and spider biodiversity to local and landscape scale management intensity in cereal crops and grasslands (2012, unknown): “Schmidt et al. (2008) studying the effect of percentage non-crop habitats on various families of spiders in wheat fields showed similar results: i.”
• Aphids and their natural enemies are differently affected by habitat features at local and landscape scales (2012, background): “As example, Schmidt et al. (2008) found that 19 species out of the 40 tested responded positively to the percentage of non-crop habitats in the surrounding landscape, and five responded negatively.”
• Effects of habitat amount and isolation on biodiversity in fragmented traditional orchards (2010, unknown): “(Schweiger et al. 2005; Billeter et al. 2008; Schmidt et al. 2008).”
• Isolation from forest reduces pollination, seed predation and insect scavenging in Swiss farmland (2009, background): “This contrasts with the much larger scales at which densities of pollinators and insect predators have been shown to be affected by habitat fragmentation (Thies and Tscharntke 1999; Steffan-Dewenter et al. 2002; Schmidt et al. 2008).”
• Landscape composition influences the activity density of Carabidae and Arachnida in soybean fields. (2010, background): “Schmidt et al. (2008) postulate that while many studies illustrate an increase in the abundance of habitat generalists with the proportion of semi-natural habitat, the metapopulation dynamics of these species are often complex and the response of a particular species to different habitats in the…”