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DOI	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171247
	A comparison of butterfly communities in irrigated and non-irrigated Mediterranean farmlands
	Gols, Rieta; Barden, Andrea; Ozden, Ozge
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0048-9697
EISSN	1879-1026
起始页码	922
卷号	922
英文摘要	Irrigation is considered a form of agricultural intensification and is of significant importance in arid and semiarid regions, such as those in the Mediterranean basin. This region differs substantially from temperate ones, in terms of climate, land -use policies and types of agricultural systems. Therefore, how biodiversity is affected by agricultural intensification may also differ substantially from countries in north-western Europe. We investigated the effect of irrigation on butterfly diversity and abundance at two different spatial scales in an agricultural region in northern Cyprus, an area representative of typical lowland agricultural practices of the Eastern Mediterranean. We investigated how local field -scale management (irrigated vs rain -fed) and the proportion of irrigated land at a larger scale of 0.25 km2 affected the abundance and diversity of butterflies and herbaceous plant species. Butterflies and herbaceous plants were surveyed in field boundaries adjacent to agricultural fields located in paired plots that had contrasting levels of irrigation. Butterflies in the field boundaries along agricultural fields were strongly positively affected by irrigation in the adjacent fields both in terms of abundance and species diversity, whereas the effect of irrigation at the larger scale of the 0.25-km2 plot was less prominent. Species composition of butterflies and plants did not correlate. However, plant abundance and alpha diversity of the vegetation in the field boundaries correlated with both abundance and alpha diversity of the butterflies when the abundance of plants was relatively low, in particular, when grasses were omitted from the data set. Crop species associated with irrigated fields contributed to the observed patterns. Comparing the results of this study with those reported for temperate regions in northwestern Europe reveals that the effectiveness of management schemes on biodiversity depend on biogeographical region, highlighting the risk of making broad assumption on the effectiveness of management strategies on biodiversity.
英文关键词	Agricultural intensification; Biodiversity loss; Butterfly conservation; Cyprus; Drought; Irrigation
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001207923000001
来源期刊	SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/303262
作者单位	Wageningen University & Research; University of Leeds; Near East University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gols, Rieta,Barden, Andrea,Ozden, Ozge. A comparison of butterfly communities in irrigated and non-irrigated Mediterranean farmlands[J],2024,922.
APA	Gols, Rieta,Barden, Andrea,&Ozden, Ozge.(2024).A comparison of butterfly communities in irrigated and non-irrigated Mediterranean farmlands.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,922.
MLA	Gols, Rieta,et al."A comparison of butterfly communities in irrigated and non-irrigated Mediterranean farmlands".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 922(2024).