EDITOR'S CHOICE: Small‐scale restoration in intensive agricultural landscapes supports more specialized and less mobile pollinator species
Abstract
Agriculture now constitutes 40–50% of terrestrial land use globally. By enhancing habitat suitability and connectivity, restoration within agricultural landscapes could have a major influence on biodiversity conservation. However, habitat management within intensive agricultural landscapes may primarily boost abundances of common, highly mobile generalists, rather than vulnerable or endangered species. We studied pollinator community response to small‐scale habitat restoration in the intensively farmed Central Valley of California to determine whether restoration could also promote more specialized, less common and/or less mobile species.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Mar 31, 2015
- Source ID
- 10.1111/1365-2664.12418
Entities
People
- Claire Kremen
- Leithen K. M'gonigle
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Florida State University
- National Science Foundation
- University of California