Vegetation management intensity and landscape diversity alter plant species richness, functional traits and community composition across European vineyards

Hall, Rea M.; Penke, Nicole; Kriechbaum, Monika; Kratschmer, Sophie; Jung, Vincent; Chollet, Simon; Guernion, Muriel; Nicolai, Annegret; Burel, Francoise; Fertil, Albin; Lora, Ángel; Sánchez-Cuesta, Rafael; Guzmán, Gema; Gómez, Jose; Popescu, Daniela; Hoble, Adela; Bunea, Claudiu-Ioan; Zaller, Johann G.; Winter, Silvia

Vegetation management intensity and landscape diversity alter plant species richness, functional traits and community composition across European vineyards

Rea M. Hall, Nicole Penke, Monika Kriechbaum, Sophie Kratschmer, Vincent Jung, Simon Chollet, Muriel Guernion, Annegret Nicolai, Francoise Burel, Albin Fertil, Ángel Lora, Rafael Sánchez-Cuesta, Gema Guzmán, Jose Gómez, Daniela Popescu, Adela Hoble, Claudiu-Ioan Bunea, Johann G. Zaller and Silvia Winter

Agricultural Systems, 2020, vol. 177, issue C

Abstract: Land-use intensification at the field and landscape scale is a strong driver for declining biodiversity and ecosystem service provision. Vineyards are characterised by non-productive inter-rows, which could potentially host diverse plant communities. Mulching, tillage or herbicides are used to mitigate the competition between vines and the inter-row vegetation. As plant species with the same set of functional traits will respond similarly to environmental filters like management measures, knowledge about plant trait–environment-relations can be used to predict community and ecosystem processes which are essential for preserving ecosystem services like soil erosion mitigation. We hypothesized that higher vegetation management intensity reduces plant (functional) diversity, changes functional traits and community composition.

Keywords: Agroecology; Tillage; Herbicides; Cover crops; Landscape; Ecosystem services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102706

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