Abundance and Species Richness of Nocturnal Insects on Organic and Conventional Farms: Effects of Agricultural Intensification on Bat Foraging

By Liat P. Wickramasinghe, S. Harris, Gareth J. F. Jones, Nancy VAUGHAN JENNINGS. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Comparison of organic and conventional farms: challenging ecologists to make biodiversity functional (2008, background): “…management and on-farm biodiversity for plants (Belfrage et al. 2005; Gabriel et al. 2006; Kleijn et al. 2006), predatory arthropods (Melnychuk et al. 2003; Purtauf et al. 2005; Schmidt et al. 2005; Kleijn et al. 2006), and non-predatory arthropods (Wickramasinghe et al. 2004; Kleijn et al. 2006).”
Use of native woodlands and traditional olive groves by foraging bats on a Mediterranean island: consequences for conservation (2007, background): “…canopy of organically farmed olive trees than in chemically treated trees (Ruano et al., 2004), and there is ample further evidence that agrichemical application affects biodiversity (e.g. Feber et al., 1997; Chamberlain, Wilson & Fuller, 1999; Beecher et al., 2002; Wickramasinghe et al., 2004).”
Testing biotic indicator taxa: the sensitivity of insectivorous mammals and their prey to the intensification of lowland agriculture (2007, background): “Moths are more abundant on organic farms than on conventional farms (Wickramasinghe et al. 2004; Hole et al. 2005) but in our study they were not strongly sensitive to increased agrochemical inputs.”
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “(Hahn et al., 2015; Wickramasinghe et al., 2004) and pollinators in Italy (Brittain et al.”
The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes (2013, background): “Wickramasinghe et al. (2004) found significantly higher species richness and diversity ofmoths on organic farms than on conventional ones in a study of 24 pairs of (livestock and mixed) farms in Britain.”
Using multi-scale modelling to predict habitat suitability for species of conservation concern: The grey long-eared bat as a case study (2011, background): “This conclusion is supported by studies showing that the activity and species richness of bats and their prey are higher on organic farms (Wickramasinghe et al., 2004), and that the abundance and species richness of moths increases following the implementation of agri-environmental schemes (Taylor a”
Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, background): “Five of the major insect prey groups eaten by bats (carabid beetles, noctuid moths, geometrid moths and chironomid and ceratopogonid flies) were more abundant on organic farms (Wickramasinghe et al. 2004).”
Effects of wastewater treatment plant effluent on bat foraging ecology in an urban stream system. (2007, background): “Our results are consistent with a study from the United Kingdom that examined the effect of anthropogenic inputs on bat food webs (Wickramasinghe et al., 2004).”