The role of semi-natural habitats on the abundance and diversity of ground beetles in coastal vineyards of Berisso, Argentina

Authors

  • María Fernanda Paleologos Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
  • Patricia Cecilia Pereyra Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
  • Santiago Javier Sarandón Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Armando Conrado Cicchino Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

Keywords:

agrobiodiversity, perennial crops, semi- natural environments, coleoptera, berisso district

Abstract

Semi-natural environments surrounding the cultivated crops ensure maintenance of ecological functions. However, increasing the diversity within the crop plots would also contribute to enhance ecological functions in the agroecosystem. The influence of semi-natural habitats on abundance, richness, and diversity of Coleoptera, as well as on the dominance of different functional groups (predators, detritivores, phytophages) was evaluated. This study has been carried out in two vineyards with different structure and composition in groundcover, the socalled “old” lowland vineyards and “new” highland vineyards. Coleopterans were sampled using Pitfall traps. Twenty-four coleopteran families in the old and 23 in the new were identified. The degree of importance of seminatural environments was markedly different between regions. In old vineyard, the beetles abundance and the abundance of trophic guilds was higher in the vineyard crop than in semi-natural environments. In the new ones were greater in semi-natural environments. Our results show that the role of semi-natural habitats, to favor the presence of fauna, depends of their environmental characteristics, and of the diversity within crop plots.

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2015-10-01

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Paleologos, M. F., Pereyra, P. C., Sarandón, S. J., & Cicchino, A. C. (2015). The role of semi-natural habitats on the abundance and diversity of ground beetles in coastal vineyards of Berisso, Argentina. Journal of the Agronomy College, 114(3), 74-84. https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/revagro/article/view/20091

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