Variation in arthropod abundance in barley under varying sowing regimes |
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Authors: | David JT Douglas Juliet A Vickery Tim G Benton |
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Institution: | aInstitute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;bBTO, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK |
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Abstract: | Managing arthropod populations on farmland for conservation purposes, such as food resources for declining farmland birds, requires information on the way distributions vary between crop types, for example under varying sowing regimes. In this study arthropods were sampled during one summer from fields of winter-sown and spring-sown barley. The relative timing of crop development had a strong influence on arthropod abundance between crop types, with winter barley supporting significantly higher abundance of total counts and many individual orders in early summer, but the reverse being the case in late summer. Fields of both crop types that received higher herbicide inputs showed reduced arthropod counts. |
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Keywords: | Agricultural intensification Arthropods Cereal crops Farmland birds Herbicides Seasonal variation |
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