Ecosystem functions of small rodents

• Main Authors: Fischer, Christina, Gayer, Christoph, Kurucz, Kornélia, Riesch, Friederike, Tscharntke, Teja, Batáry, Péter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad Digital Repository 2017
• Subjects: agricultural intensification; biological weed control; crop damage; ecosystem disservice; ecosystem functioning; ecosystem services; organic farming; rodents; seed predation; Mühlhausen; Göttingen; East Germany; West Germany; Microtus arvalis; Triticum aestivum; Galium aparine
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q/1; http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.fj63q/1

Data 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.