scholarly journals Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the intensively cultivated agricultural landscape of Northern China – implications for biodiversity conservation

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUNHUI LIU ◽  
JAN C. AXMACHER ◽  
CHANGLIU WANG ◽  
LIANGTAO LI ◽  
ZHENRONG YU
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Ground Beetles

scholarly journals Distribution of ground beetles of the genus Bembidion (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the agricultural landscape in Northwestern Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Olga G. Guseva ◽  
Alexander G. Koval
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Dense Vegetation ◽  
Field Boundaries ◽  
Northwestern Russia

We have observed seven species of predator beetles of the genus Bembidion in the agricultural landscape of the Leningrad Region (Northwestern Russia) between the years 2008 and 2018. These species reach their highest abundance in sun-exposed areas, especially mesophilic B. quadrimaculatum Linnaeus, 1761, B. properans (Stephens, 1828), B. lampros (Herbst, 1784), and B. femoratum Sturm, 1825. A few mesohygrophilic B. guttula (Fabricius, 1792) and B. gilvipes (Sturm, 1825) live primarily in areas of dense vegetation. Finally, the hygrophilic B. bruxellense (Wesmael, 1835) was only observed on the most humid soils. Assemblages of Bembidion ground beetles were separated in the fields, field boundaries, and adjacent habitats.

Non-crop habitats promote the abundance of predatory ladybeetles in maize fields in the agricultural landscape of northern China

2019 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Yang ◽  
Lei Xu ◽  
Bing Liu ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Yunfei Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Northern China

scholarly journals Woodland Rehabilitation and Biodiversity Conservation in an Agricultural Landscape in South Eastern Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Adams-Schimminger ◽  
Graham Fifield ◽  
Bruce Doran ◽  
David Freudenberger
Keyword(s):  
Ground Water ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Tree Hollows ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Environmental Organisation

Southern Australia has a tree crisis. The iconic and ecologically essential eucalypt trees are dying out across vast swathes of farmland that were once grassy woodlands. A century of clearing and agricultural intensification, plus the failure of these trees to self-regenerate, has led to a massive loss of wildlife habitat, particularly tree hollows that only form in large and old Eucalyptus trees. Just as importantly, this decline in trees has exposed farmers to losses of agricultural productivity. There is now a lack of shelter for livestock. Rising salty ground water is degrading pastures as this ground water is no longer being controlled by the deep roots and respiration of eucalypts. We describe the research that shows how an innovative partnership between farmers, a non-government environmental organisation, and government funding is rehabilitating entire fields to a productive and wildlife-rich woodland full of thriving eucalypts.

scholarly journals Landscape heterogeneity of peasant-managed agricultural matrices

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana L. Urrutia ◽  
Cecilia González-González ◽  
Emilio Mora Van Cauwelaert ◽  
Julieta A. Rosell ◽  
Luis García Barrios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Heterogeneity ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Matrix ◽  
Wildlife Migration ◽  
Managed Landscapes

ABSTRACTIn agricultural landscapes, management practices and other environmental and social factors shape complex agroecological matrices. In turn, the structure of such matrices impacts both agricultural activities and biodiversity conservation, for instance, by mediating wildlife migration between agricultural and habitat patches. One way to characterize a matrix, its potential role in biodiversity conservation, and how its descriptors change across different spatial scales, is characterizing heterogeneity metrics and systematically examining how such metrics change with grain size and landscape extent. However, these methods have rarely been applied to tropical, peasant-managed landscapes, even though this type of landscape occupies most of the agricultural surface in or near biodiversity hotspots. We focus on a peasant-managed agricultural landscape in Oaxaca, Mexico, for which we mapped and quantified the land-use classes and evaluated heterogeneity metrics. We also examined the response of heterogeneity metrics to changes in grain and extent scales. This allowed us to further understand the structure and conservation potential of the agroecological matrix in this type of landscape, to broadly compare this landscape with other agricultural landscapes in North America, and to recommend specific landscape metrics for different types of studies involving agricultural matrices. We conclude that this type of agricultural matrix is ideal to pursue joint agricultural and conservation strategies in an integrated landscape.

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