Türke, Manfred; Blattmann, Tamara; Knop, Eva; Kindermann, Anne; Prestele, Julia; Marquez, Leonardo; Eisenhauer, Nico; Fischer, Christina (2013). Weeds and endangered herbs have unforeseen dispersal helpers in the agri-environment: gastropods and earthworms. Renewable agriculture and food systems, 28(4), pp. 380-383. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S1742170512000415
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Agri-environmental schemes involving organic farming or set-aside management aim at promoting biodiversity and restoring ecosystem functioning in agrarian landscapes. Application of pesticides in these crop fields is strongly regulated facilitating the spread of weeds but also allowing for the establishment of endangered herbs and a variety of animals.Recent studies found gastropods and earthworms to be legitimate dispersers of seeds of wild plants. We assumed that both groups also playa significant role in the spread and establishment of wild plants within crop fields. Therefore, we are conducting a series of experiments in three different study systems on (1) the role of earthworms and gastropods as dispersers of rare herbs and weeds in an organic rye field in Germany, (2) the seed feeding behavior of gastropods of plants sown in fallow ground in Switzerland, and (3) weed dispersal in irrigated rice fields by golden apple snails in the Philippines.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Blattmann, Tamara and Knop, Eva |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology |
ISSN: |
1742-1705 |
Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Alexander Strauss |
Date Deposited: |
04 Aug 2014 17:00 |
Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2019 19:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1017/S1742170512000415 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
seed dispersal, slugs, snails, crop field, feeding trial |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.45998 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/45998 |
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