How trees in agricultural landscapes structure pollinator communities ?
Trees in agricultural landscapes: understanding past changes for a better management strategies
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Landscape Design as a Tool to Reduce Soil Salinization: The Study Case of Keriya Oasis (NW China)
Irrational use and management of water and land are associated with poor hydro-geological conditions causing water logging and salinization problems, possibly leading to farmland abandonment and economic loss. This poses a great challenge to the sustainability of oasis&rsquo / and requires desalinization through reasonable landscape design by multi...
Looking for Ticks from Space: Using Remotely Sensed Spectral Diversity to Assess Amblyomma and Hyalomma Tick Abundance
Landscape heterogeneity, as measured by the spectral diversity of satellite imagery, has the potential to provide information on the resources available within the movement capacity range of arthropod vectors, and to help predict vector abundance. The Spectral Variation Hypothesis states that higher spectral diversity is positively related to a hig...
Habitat Selection of Wintering Birds in Farm Ponds in Taoyuan, Taiwan
Published in Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary Identification of existing and potential irrigation ponds is essential for creating waterbird refuges to secure habitats for wintering waterbirds in anthropogenically influenced areas. In total, 45 ponds were surveyed in the Taoyuan Tableland in northwestern Taiwan. The association between pond dimensions and bird-species richness an...
Do spatial scale and life history affect fish-habitat relationships?
Published in The Journal of animal ecology
Understanding how animals interact with their environment is a fundamental ecological question with important implications for conservation and management. The relationships between animals and their habitat, however, can be scale-dependent. If ecologists work at suboptimal spatial scales, they will gain an incomplete picture of how animals respond...
Effects of land use on infestation and parasitism rates of cabbage seed weevil in oilseed rape.
Published in Pest management science
This study investigated how infestation rates of an important oilseed rape pest, the cabbage seed weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus) and rates of parasitization by its parasitoids are affected by land use, up to 1000 m from 18 focal fields. The mean proportion of C. obstrictus-infested pods per plant was 8% (2-19.5%). Infestation rates were higher i...
A Systematic Comparison of Cultural and Ecological Landscape Corridors in Europe
Landscape corridors are narrow strips of land that differ from the matrix on either side. In addition to providing connectivity between fragmented landscapes, these corridors serve scenic, cultural, social, ecological, and recreational purposes. We systematically reviewed reports and studies related to 92 cultural and ecological landscape corridors...
The effect of landscape structure on dispersal distances of the Eurasian red squirrel.
Published in Ecology and evolution
Landscape structure can affect dispersal and gene flow in a species. In urban areas, buildings, roads, and small habitat patches make the landscape highly fragmented and can inhibit movement and affect dispersal behavior. Similarly, in rural forested areas, large open areas, such as fields, may act as barriers to movement. We studied how landscape ...
Landscape and Environmental Factors Influencing Stage Persistence and Abundance of the Bamboo Mosquito, Tripteroides bam...
Published in Insects
The bamboo mosquito, Tripteroides bambusa (Yamada) (Diptera: Culicidae) , is a common insect across East Asia. Several studies have looked at the ecology of Tr. bambusa developmental stages separately, but little is known about the factors associated with the persistence (how often) and abundance (how many individuals) of Tr. bambusa stages simulta...
