Landscape context and habitat type as drivers of bee diversity in European annual crops Export

@article{Carre2009_bee_corine, abstract = {To better understand the dynamics of bee populations in crops, we assessed the effect of landscape context and habitat type on bee communities in annual entomophilous crops in Europe. We quantified bee communities in five pairs of crop-country: buckwheat in Poland, cantaloupe in France, field beans in the UK, spring oilseed rape in Sweden, and strawberries in Germany. For each country, 7–10 study fields were sampled over a gradient of increasing proportion of semi-natural habitats in the surrounding landscape. The CORINE land cover classification was used to characterize the landscape over a 3 km radius around each study field and we used multivariate and regression analyses to quantify the impact of landscape features on bee abundance and diversity at the sub-generic taxonomic level. Neither overall wild bee abundance nor diversity, taken as the number of sub-genera, was significantly affected by the proportion of semi-natural habitat. Therefore, we used the most precise level of the CORINE classification to examine the possible links between specific landscape features and wild bee communities. Bee community composition fell into three distinct groups across Europe: group 1 included Poland, Germany, and Sweden, group 2 the UK, and group 3 France. Among all three groups, wild bee abundance and sub-generic diversity were affected by 17 landscape elements including some semi-natural habitats (e.g., transitional woodland-shrub), some urban habitats (e.g., sport and leisure facilities) and some crop habitats (e.g., non-irrigated arable land). Some bee taxa were positively affected by urban habitats only, others by semi-natural habitats only, and others by a combination of semi-natural, urban and crop habitats. Bee sub-genera favoured by urban and crop habitats were more resistant to landscape change than those favoured only by semi-natural habitats. In agroecosystems, the agricultural intensification defined as the loss of semi-natural habitats does not necessarily cause a decline in evenness at the local level, but can change community composition towards a bee fauna dominated by common taxa.}, author = {Carr\'{e}, Gabriel and Roche, Philip and Chifflet, R\'{e}my and Morison, Nicolas and Bommarco, Riccardo and Harrison-Cripps, Jenn and Krewenka, Kristin and Potts, Simon G. and Roberts, Stuart P. M. and Rodet, Guy}, citeulike-article-id = {4893925}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2009.05.001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167880909001406}, day = {11}, doi = {10.1016/j.agee.2009.05.001}, issn = {01678809}, journal = {Agriculture, Ecosystems \& Environment}, keywords = {agriculture, connectivity, corine, diversity, habitat}, month = {September}, number = {1-2}, pages = {40--47}, posted-at = {2009-08-18 21:05:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Landscape context and habitat type as drivers of bee diversity in European annual crops}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2009.05.001}, volume = {133}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - Carre2009_bee_corine L3 - citeulike-article-id:4893925 N2 - To better understand the dynamics of bee populations in crops, we assessed the effect of landscape context and habitat type on bee communities in annual entomophilous crops in Europe. We quantified bee communities in five pairs of crop-country: buckwheat in Poland, cantaloupe in France, field beans in the UK, spring oilseed rape in Sweden, and strawberries in Germany. For each country, 7–10 study fields were sampled over a gradient of increasing proportion of semi-natural habitats in the surrounding landscape. The CORINE land cover classification was used to characterize the landscape over a 3 km radius around each study field and we used multivariate and regression analyses to quantify the impact of landscape features on bee abundance and diversity at the sub-generic taxonomic level. Neither overall wild bee abundance nor diversity, taken as the number of sub-genera, was significantly affected by the proportion of semi-natural habitat. Therefore, we used the most precise level of the CORINE classification to examine the possible links between specific landscape features and wild bee communities. Bee community composition fell into three distinct groups across Europe: group 1 included Poland, Germany, and Sweden, group 2 the UK, and group 3 France. Among all three groups, wild bee abundance and sub-generic diversity were affected by 17 landscape elements including some semi-natural habitats (e.g., transitional woodland-shrub), some urban habitats (e.g., sport and leisure facilities) and some crop habitats (e.g., non-irrigated arable land). Some bee taxa were positively affected by urban habitats only, others by semi-natural habitats only, and others by a combination of semi-natural, urban and crop habitats. Bee sub-genera favoured by urban and crop habitats were more resistant to landscape change than those favoured only by semi-natural habitats. In agroecosystems, the agricultural intensification defined as the loss of semi-natural habitats does not necessarily cause a decline in evenness at the local level, but can change community composition towards a bee fauna dominated by common taxa. IS - 1-2 JF - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment SN - 01678809 EP - 47 TI - Landscape context and habitat type as drivers of bee diversity in European annual crops VL - 133 SP - 40 KW - agriculture KW - connectivity KW - corine KW - diversity KW - habitat AU - Carré, Gabriel AU - Roche, Philip AU - Chifflet, Rémy AU - Morison, Nicolas AU - Bommarco, Riccardo AU - Harrison-Cripps, Jenn AU - Krewenka, Kristin AU - Potts, Simon AU - Roberts, Stuart AU - Rodet, Guy PY - 2009/09/11/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2009.05.001 ER -