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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Main Authors: Fischer, Christina, Gayer, Christoph, Kurucz, Kornélia, Riesch, Friederike, Tscharntke, Teja, Batáry, Péter
Format: Dataset
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Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::8655f787ffac84d26e1680e66c9b5178 2023-05-15T17:12:40+02:00 Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management Fischer, Christina Gayer, Christoph Kurucz, Kornélia Riesch, Friederike Tscharntke, Teja Batáry, Péter 2017-01-01 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q undefined unknown http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q lic_creative-commons oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:98807 10.5061/dryad.fj63q oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:98807 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 re3data_____::r3d100000044 Life sciences medicine and health care ecosystem disservice Microtus arvalis biological weed control agricultural intensification crop damage Galium aparine organic farming ecosystem services Rodents seed predation Triticum aestivum ecosystem functioning Mühlhausen Göttingen East Germany West Germany envir geo Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fj63q 2023-01-22T16:52:00Z 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 that voles drive ecosystem disservices, but not ecosystem services, in agricultural fields. Daily wheat seed removal by voles was influenced by increasing wheat height and was almost three times higher than weed seed removal, which was not related to local or landscape-scale effects. 4. Abundance of voles and associated crop damage decreased with lower crop density and higher wheat height, which were associated with organic farming. Abundance of voles and crop damage were highest in conventional fields in west Germany. 5. Synthesis and applications. As the ecosystem disservice of wheat seed consumption by voles and mice must be considered mainly during crop sowing, management before harvest should focus on decreasing the pest potential of voles’ but not mice. Our results suggest that densities of voles and their ecosystem disservices could be reduced by having fields with low crop density and high wheat height, practices associated with organic farming. Surrounding landscapes with low compositional and ... Dataset Microtus arvalis Unknown
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topic Life sciences
medicine and health care
ecosystem disservice
Microtus arvalis
biological weed control
agricultural intensification
crop damage
Galium aparine
organic farming
ecosystem services
Rodents
seed predation
Triticum aestivum
ecosystem functioning
Mühlhausen
Göttingen
East Germany
West Germany
envir
geo
spellingShingle Life sciences
medicine and health care
ecosystem disservice
Microtus arvalis
biological weed control
agricultural intensification
crop damage
Galium aparine
organic farming
ecosystem services
Rodents
seed predation
Triticum aestivum
ecosystem functioning
Mühlhausen
Göttingen
East Germany
West Germany
envir
geo
Fischer, Christina
Gayer, Christoph
Kurucz, Kornélia
Riesch, Friederike
Tscharntke, Teja
Batáry, Péter
Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
topic_facet Life sciences
medicine and health care
ecosystem disservice
Microtus arvalis
biological weed control
agricultural intensification
crop damage
Galium aparine
organic farming
ecosystem services
Rodents
seed predation
Triticum aestivum
ecosystem functioning
Mühlhausen
Göttingen
East Germany
West Germany
envir
geo
description 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 that voles drive ecosystem disservices, but not ecosystem services, in agricultural fields. Daily wheat seed removal by voles was influenced by increasing wheat height and was almost three times higher than weed seed removal, which was not related to local or landscape-scale effects. 4. Abundance of voles and associated crop damage decreased with lower crop density and higher wheat height, which were associated with organic farming. Abundance of voles and crop damage were highest in conventional fields in west Germany. 5. Synthesis and applications. As the ecosystem disservice of wheat seed consumption by voles and mice must be considered mainly during crop sowing, management before harvest should focus on decreasing the pest potential of voles’ but not mice. Our results suggest that densities of voles and their ecosystem disservices could be reduced by having fields with low crop density and high wheat height, practices associated with organic farming. Surrounding landscapes with low compositional and ...
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author Fischer, Christina
Gayer, Christoph
Kurucz, Kornélia
Riesch, Friederike
Tscharntke, Teja
Batáry, Péter
author_facet Fischer, Christina
Gayer, Christoph
Kurucz, Kornélia
Riesch, Friederike
Tscharntke, Teja
Batáry, Péter
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title Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
title_short Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
title_full Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
title_fullStr Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
title_full_unstemmed Data from: Ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
title_sort data from: ecosystem services and disservices provided by small rodents in arable fields: effects of local and landscape management
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