Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management ...
1. In agriculture, both valuable ecosystem services and unwanted ecosystem disservices can be produced by the same organism group. For example, small rodents can provide biological control through weed seed consumption but may also act as pests, causing crop damage. 2. We studied the hypothesised ca...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.fj63q |
| Summary: | 1. In agriculture, both valuable ecosystem services and unwanted ecosystem disservices can be produced by the same organism group. For example, small rodents can provide biological control through weed seed consumption but may also act as pests, causing crop damage. 2. We studied the hypothesised causal relationships between ecosystem services (removal of weed seeds) and disservices (removal of wheat and crop damage) derived by small rodents (voles and mice) at multiple spatial scales. At the landscape scale, we studied the effects of landscape compositional and configurational heterogeneity along the former inner German border in east and west Germany on the abundance of voles and mice and their related ecosystem services and disservices. At the local scale, we studied how this abundance and ecosystem functions are affected by management intensity (organic vs. conventional winter wheat), associated differences in crop characteristics and edge effects. 3. Linear mixed effects models and path analysis show ... : Ecosystem functions of small rodentsData collected at the field edges, interiors and centres of organic and conventional winter wheat fields in East and West Germany during the crop growing season in 2014. As response variables abundance of mice and voles, daily seed removal rate by rodents of G. aparine and T. aestivum, and crop damage were measured/calculated and as explanatory variables region (East vs. West), management intensity (organic vs. conventional) and edge effects (transect: edge, interior, centre), as well as edge length, Shannon habitat diversity index (SHDI), crop density and wheat height were used.data_JApplL-2017-00095.R2.xlsx ... |
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