How landscape structure, land-use intensity and habitat diversity affect components of total arthropod diversity in agricultural landscapes
- F. Hendrickx, J. Maelfait, R. Bugter
- Environmental Science
- 1 April 2007
The total landscape species richness of all groups was most strongly affected by increased proximity of semi-natural habitat patches and the effect of increased habitat diversity appeared to be of secondary importance to total species richness but caused a shift in the relative contribution of α and β diversity towards the latter.
Low propensity for aerial dispersal in specialist spiders from fragmented landscapes
- D. Bonte, N. Vandenbroecke, L. Lens, J. Maelfait
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the Royal Society of London…
- 7 August 2003
Investigation of interspecific variation in the ballooning–initiating tiptoe behaviour as it is linked to spider dispersal performance indicates that ballooning performance is negatively related to habitat specialization in spiders from patchy grey dunes, so habitat specialists are characterized by poorly developed dispersal behaviour.
Understanding the impact of flooding on trait-displacements and shifts in assemblage structure of predatory arthropods on river banks.
- K. Lambeets, M. Vandegehuchte, J. Maelfait, D. Bonte
- Environmental ScienceJournal of Animal Ecology
- 1 November 2008
The results indicate that mainly riparian species are disfavoured by either too high or too low degrees of disturbance, whereas eurytopic species benefit from increased flooding.
Quantifying the impact of environmental factors on arthropod communities in agricultural landscapes across organizational levels and spatial scales
- O. Schweiger, J. Maelfait, R. Bugter
- Environmental Science
- 1 December 2005
1. In landscapes influenced by anthropogenic activities, such as intensive agriculture, knowledge of the relative importance and interaction of environmental factors on the composition and function…
Effects of landscape structure and land-use intensity on similarity of plant and animal communities
- C. Dormann, O. Schweiger, M. Zobel
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2007
Aim Species richness in itself is not always sufficient to evaluate land management strategies for nature conservation. The exchange of species between local communities may be affected by landscape…
Indicators for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a pan‐European study
- R. Billeter, J. Liira, P. Edwards
- Environmental Science
- 5 October 2007
Summary 1. In many European agricultural landscapes, species richness is declining considerably. Studies performed at a very large spatial scale are helpful in understanding the reasons for this…
Beach nourishment: an ecologically sound coastal defence alternative? A review
- J. Speybroeck, D. Bonte, S. Degraer
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2006
Even though beach nouiishmeilt is generally considered as an environment-friendly option for coastal protection and beach restoration, sizeable impacts on several beach ecosystem con~ponents…
Integrating environmental conditions and functional life-history traits for riparian arthropod conservation planning
- K. Lambeets, M. Vandegehuchte, J. Maelfait, D. Bonte
- Environmental Science
- 1 March 2009
Pervasive effects of dispersal limitation on within- and among-community species richness in agricultural landscapes
- F. Hendrickx, J. Maelfait, R. Bugter
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 2009
It is revealed that only local species assemblages with low dispersal ability show a decrease of richness as a result of fragmentation, while fragmentation homogenizes the landscape fauna for all dispersal groups, which indicates the invasion of non-crop habitats by similar good dispersers across the whole landscape.
SPIDER ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE AND STABILITY IN A HETEROGENEOUS COASTAL DUNE SYSTEM (BELGIUM)
- D. Bonte, L. Baert, J. Maelfait
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 2002
An analysis of the spider assemblage structure and the presence of indicator species in the Flemish coastal dunes is presented, based on data from more than 170 year-round pitfall sampling campaigns from the 1970s onwards.
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