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Porträtt av Henrik Smith. Foto.

Henrik Smith

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Porträtt av Henrik Smith. Foto.

Field scale organic farming does not counteract landscape effects on butterfly trait composition

Författare

  • Dennis Jonason
  • Georg Andersson
  • Erik Öckinger
  • Henrik Smith
  • Jan Bengtsson

Summary, in English

We tested how dispersal capacity, host plant specificity and reproductive rate influenced the effects of farming system and landscape composition on butterfly species richness and abundance. In no case did variation in these traits explain species responses to organic farming, indicating that all species benefit equally. In contrast, butterflies with high mobility and reproductive rate were disproportionally more abundant in landscapes dominated by arable land, and the species richness of butterflies with low mobility tended to decrease with increasing proportion of arable land whereas those of high mobility remained fairly constant. Hence, although organic farming increased biodiversity, it did not counteract landscape effects on butterfly trait composition. As a trait dependent loss of biodiversity may result in a larger decline of functional trait diversity compared to species diversity, these results imply that organic farming may not increase or restore functional agro-ecosystem diversity. Information provided by species traits, rather than biodiversity per se, may provide important information for successful revisions of future agri-environment schemes.

Avdelning/ar

  • Biodiversitet
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Biodiversitet och bevarandevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

66-71

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Volym

158

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Ecology
  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Agri-environment schemes
  • Farmland biodiversity
  • Farming system
  • Species traits
  • Time since transition

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-2305