Arthropod assemblage response to agricultural land use intensification
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Paper/Presentation Title | Arthropod assemblage response to agricultural land use intensification |
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Presentation Type | Poster |
Authors | Attwood, Simon J. (Author), Maron, Martine (Author), House, Alan (Author) and Zammit, Charlie (Author) |
Editors | Timmins, Susan |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Ecology Across the Tasman |
Journal Citation | 7 |
Year | 2006 |
Place of Publication | Wellington, New Zealand |
Conference/Event | 3rd Joint Conference of the New Zealand Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia |
Event Details | 3rd Joint Conference of the New Zealand Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia Event Date 28 Aug 2006 to end of 01 Sep 2006 Event Location Wellington, New Zealand |
Abstract | Agricultural expansion and intensification is a major threat to biodiversity globally, yet agricultural landscapes often support complex and dynamic biological communities within a diverse array of land uses. To examine the relative biodiversity value of land uses ranging from low to high intensification, we compared arthropod abundance, richness and community composition among sites in cropland, pasture and woodland on nine southern Queensland properties. Overall abundance of arthropods was significantly greater at cropping/pasture interfaces than in woodland or cropping sites, but order level richness did not differ between land uses. Some taxa displayed different responses to land use type, with mites more abundant in woodland than cropland, and collembola displaying greater abundance in pasture. Ant morphospecies richness was significantly greater in woodland than more intensive land uses, although total abundance was highest in pasture. Abundance of opportunistic ant taxa increased with land use intensity. The introduced species Pheidole megacephala was significantly more abundant in pasture than other land use types. |
Keywords | arthropod abundance; agricultural landscapes |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 310308. Terrestrial ecology |
410304. Environmental biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors) | |
410206. Landscape ecology | |
Public Notes | Poster presentation. Abstract only available. No evidence of copyright restrictions on web site. |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Biological and Physical Sciences |
Faculty of Sciences | |
Department of Environment and Water Resources, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xy3q/arthropod-assemblage-response-to-agricultural-land-use-intensification
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