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Local Factors Rather than the Landscape Context Explain Species Richness and Functional Trait Diversity and Responses of Plant Assemblages of Mediterranean Cereal Field Margins
- Source :
- Plants, Volume 9, Issue 6, Plants, MDPI, 2020, 9 (6), pp.778. ⟨10.3390/plants9060778⟩, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva, Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE, Plants, Vol 9, Iss 778, p 778 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
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Abstract
- © 2020 by the authors.<br />Arable field margins are valuable habitats providing a wide range of ecosystem services in rural landscapes. Agricultural intensification in recent decades has been a major cause of decline in plant diversity in these habitats. However, the concomitant effects on plant functional diversity are less documented, particularly in Mediterranean areas. In this paper, we analyzed the effect of margin width and surrounding landscape (cover and diversity of land use and field size), used as proxies for management intensity at local and landscape scales, on plant species richness, functional diversity and functional trait values in margins of winter cereal fields in southern Spain. Five functional traits were selected: life form, growth form, seed mass, seed dispersal mode and pollination type. RLQ and fourth-corner analyses were used to link functional traits and landscape variables. A total of 306 plant species were recorded. Species richness and functional diversity were positively related to margin width but showed no response to landscape variables. Functional trait values were affected neither by the local nor landscape variables. Our results suggest that increasing the margin width of conventionally managed cereal fields would enhance both taxonomic and functional diversity of margin plant assemblages, and thus the services they provide to the agro-ecosystem.<br />This work was partly funded by FEDER funds and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Projects AGL2012-33736 and AGL2015-64130-R). YP was supported by an FPI (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) scholarship.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Pollination
Range (biology)
Seed dispersal
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Context (language use)
Plant Science
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Article
Ecosystem services
Seed mass
lcsh:Botany
Plant functional traits
Plant ecology
Enginyeria agroalimentària::Agricultura::Producció vegetal [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
2. Zero hunger
plant functional traits
Ecology
Agricultural intensification
Ecologia vegetal
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
seed mass
plant diversity
lcsh:QK1-989
Geography
Habitat
Plant diversity
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
040103 agronomy & agriculture
Trait
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Species richness
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
agricultural intensification
human activities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22237747
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Plants
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f6698896c2c3851f0366f01d963bb066
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9060778