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Jeliazkov A, Mijatovic D, Chantepie S, Andrew N, Arlettaz R, Barbaro L, Barsoum N, Bartonova A, Belskaya E, Bonada N, Brind'Amour A, Carvalho R, Castro H, Chmura D, Choler P, Chong-Seng K, Cleary D, Cormont A, Cornwell W, de Campos R, de Voogd N, Doledec S, Drew J, Dziock F, Eallonardo A, Edgar MJ, Farneda F, Hernandez DF, Frenette-Dussault C, Fried G, Gallardo B, Gibb H, Gonçalves-Souza T, Higuti J, Humbert JY, Krasnov BR, Saux EL, Lindo Z, Lopez-Baucells A, Lowe E, Marteinsdottir B, Martens K, Meffert P, Mellado-Díaz A, Menz MHM, Meyer CFJ, Miranda JR, Mouillot D, Ossola A, Pakeman R, Pavoine S, Pekin B, Pino J, Pocheville A, Pomati F, Poschlod P, Prentice HC, Purschke O, Raevel V, Reitalu T, Renema W, Ribera I, Robinson N, Robroek B, Rocha R, Shieh SH, Spake R, Staniaszek-Kik M, Stanko M, Tejerina-Garro FL, Braak CT, Urban MC, Klink RV, Villéger S, Wegman R, Westgate MJ, Wolff J, Żarnowiec J, Zolotarev M, Chase JM. A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space. Sci Data 2020; 7:6. [PMID: 31913312 PMCID: PMC6949231 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The use of functional information in the form of species traits plays an important role in explaining biodiversity patterns and responses to environmental changes. Although relationships between species composition, their traits, and the environment have been extensively studied on a case-by-case basis, results are variable, and it remains unclear how generalizable these relationships are across ecosystems, taxa and spatial scales. To address this gap, we collated 80 datasets from trait-based studies into a global database for metaCommunity Ecology: Species, Traits, Environment and Space; "CESTES". Each dataset includes four matrices: species community abundances or presences/absences across multiple sites, species trait information, environmental variables and spatial coordinates of the sampling sites. The CESTES database is a live database: it will be maintained and expanded in the future as new datasets become available. By its harmonized structure, and the diversity of ecosystem types, taxonomic groups, and spatial scales it covers, the CESTES database provides an important opportunity for synthetic trait-based research in community ecology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alienor Jeliazkov
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
- Department of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099, Halle, Salle, Germany.
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Dynafor, INRA-INPT, Univ. Toulouse, Auzeville, France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Centre for Ecosystems, Society and Biosecurity, Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey, GU10 4LH, UK
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- Biology Centre CAS, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Branisovska 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of Science, Branisovska 1760, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Eighth March Street 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
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- Grup de Recerca "Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management" (FEHM), Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Unité Écologie et Modèles pour l'Halieutique, IFREMER, Rue de l'île d'Yeu, B.P. 21105, 44311, Nantes, Cedex 03, France
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Campus Palmeiras de Goiás, Palmeiras de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil
- Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais do Cerrado (RENAC), Campus de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas - Henrique Santillo, BR 153, No. 3105 Fazenda Barreiro do Meio, 75132400, Anápolis, GO, Brazil
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- CFE- Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-456, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Institute of Environmental Protection and Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala, Willowa 2, 43-309, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, F-38000, Grenoble, France
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
- Tropical Island Sustainable Development Research Center, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, 300 Liu-Ho Rd., Magong City, Penghu, 880, Taiwan
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3-3 A, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Av. Colombo, 5790, CEP, 87020-900, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Vondellaan 55, 2332 AA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology Department, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- UMR 5023 LEHNA, Université Lyon 1, Université Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Environmental and Forest Biology. State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. 1 Forestry Dr. Syracuse, New York, NY, 13210, USA
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- University of Applied Sciences HTW Dresden, Pillnitzer Platz 2, D-01326, Dresden, Germany
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- OBG, Part of Ramboll, 400 Andrews St., Suite 710, Rochester, NY, 14604, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 69011-970, Manaus, Brazil
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, University of Lisbon, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto EPOMEX, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Av. Héroe de Nacozari No. 480, Campus VI de Investigación-UAC, San Francisco de Campeche, 24020, Campeche, México
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- Anses, Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux, Unité Entomologie et Plantes Invasives, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
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- Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC). Avda. Montanana, 1005, zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution and Centre for Future Landscapes, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Ecological Synthesis and Biodiversity Conservation Lab, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Av. Colombo, 5790, CEP, 87020-900, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede-Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 8499000, Israel
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 69011-970, Manaus, Brazil
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, University of Lisbon, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
- Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, 08402, Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium
- University of Ghent, Department of Biology, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100, Murcia, Spain
- Gerencia de Planificación y Gestión Hídrica. TRAGSATEC. C/Valentín Beato, 6, 28037, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Migration and Immuno-ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, 78315, Radolfzell, Germany
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- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 69011-970, Manaus, Brazil
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, University of Lisbon, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
- School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, M5 4WT, Salford, UK
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- Instituto EPOMEX, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Av. Héroe de Nacozari No. 480, Campus VI de Investigación-UAC, San Francisco de Campeche, 24020, Campeche, México
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- MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, 34469, Turkey
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés 08193, Spain/UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallés, 08193, Spain
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- CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, Bât. 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse, cedex 9, France
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- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Water Science and Technology, Uberlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dubendorf, Switzerland
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- Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Regensburg, D-93040, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden
- Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, F-34293, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France
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- Institute of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Vondellaan 55, 2332 AA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Maritim Barceloneta 37, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- National Ecological Observatory Network, 1685 38th Street Suite 100, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA
- University of Colorado Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCB 334, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 69011-970, Manaus, Brazil
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, University of Lisbon, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Ecological Humanities, Providence University, 200, Sec. 7, Taiwan Boulevard, Shalu Dist., Taichung, 43301, Taiwan
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecology, University of Lodz, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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- Institute of Parasitology and Institute of Zoology, Slovak Acad. Sci., Loffl erova 10, SK-04001, Kosice, Slovakia
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- Centro de Biologia Aquática, Escola de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Campus II. Av. Engler s/n, Jd. Mariliza, Goiânia, Goiás, CEP 74885460, Brazil
- Laboratório de Biodiversidade, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociedade Tecnologia e Meio Ambiente, UniEVANGÉLICA. Avenida Universitária km 3,5, Cidade Universitária, Anápolis, Goiás, CEP 75083-515, Brazil
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- Biometris, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3-3 A, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Institute of Environmental Protection and Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala, Willowa 2, 43-309, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Eighth March Street 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5E, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099, Halle, Salle, Germany
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van Klink R, Menz MHM, Baur H, Dosch O, Kühne I, Lischer L, Luka H, Meyer S, Szikora T, Unternährer D, Arlettaz R, Humbert JY. Larval and phenological traits predict insect community response to mowing regime manipulations. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2019; 29:e01900. [PMID: 30980442 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2018] [Revised: 12/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
For the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural grasslands, it is essential to understand how management acts as an ecological filter on the resident species. Mowing constitutes such a filter: only species that possess functional traits enabling them to withstand its consequences can persist in the community. We investigated how the timing of mowing modulates this filtering effect for insects. We predicted that two traits drive species responses. Species with larval development within the meadow vegetation will suffer more from mowing than species whose larvae develop in or on the ground, or outside the meadows, while species with a later phenology should benefit from later mowing. We conducted a five-year experiment, replicated at 12 sites across the Swiss lowlands, applying three different mowing regimes to low-intensity hay meadows: (1) first cut of the year not earlier than 15 June (control regime); (2) the first cut delayed until 15 July; and (3) leaving an uncut grass refuge on 10-20% of the meadow area (after earliest first cut on 15 June). Before the first cut in years 4 or 5, we sampled larvae of Lepidoptera and sawflies, and adults of moths, parasitoid wasps, wild bees, hoverflies, ground beetles, and rove beetles. Overall, before the first cut of the year, abundances of species with vegetation-dwelling larvae were higher in meadows with delayed mowing or an uncut grass refuge, with some taxon-specific variation. In contrast, species whose larval development is independent of the meadow vegetation showed no differences in abundance between mowing regimes. Species richness did not differ among regimes. For species with vegetation-dwelling larvae, a fourth-corner analysis showed an association between early phenology and the control regime. No associations were found for the other functional groups. Our results show that slight modifications of mowing regimes, easily implementable in agri-environmental policy schemes, can boost invertebrate abundance, potentially benefitting insectivorous vertebrates.
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Affiliation(s)
- Roel van Klink
- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Community Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
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- Division of Community Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
- Department of Invertebrates, Natural History Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Crop Sciences, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, 5070, Frick, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Valais Field Station, Rue du Rhône 11, 1950, Sion, Switzerland
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Balzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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