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Spatiotemporal dynamics of the agricultural landscape mosaic drives distribution and abundance of dominant carabid beetles

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Abstract

Context

Agroecosystems are dynamic, with yearly changing proportions of crops. Explicit consideration of this temporal heterogeneity is required to decipher population and community patterns but remains poorly studied.

Objectives

We evaluated the impact on the activity-density of two dominant carabid species (Poecilus cupreus and Anchomenus dorsalis) of (1) local crop, current year landscape composition, and their interaction, and (2) inter-annual changes in landscape composition due to crop rotations.

Methods

Carabids were sampled using pitfall-traps in 188 fields of winter cereals and oilseed rape in three agricultural areas of western France contrasting in their spatial heterogeneity. We summarized landscape composition in the current and previous years in a multi-scale perspective, using buffers of increasing size around sampling locations.

Results

Both species were more abundant in oilseed rape, and in landscapes with a higher proportion of oilseed rape in the previous year. P. cupreus abundance was negatively influenced by oilseed rape proportion in the current year landscape in winter cereals and positively by winter cereal proportion in oilseed rape. A. dorsalis was globally impacted at finer scales than P. cupreus.

Conclusions

Resource concentration and dilution-concentration processes jointly appear to cause transient dynamics of population abundance and distribution among habitat patches. Inter-patch movements across years appear to be key drivers of carabids’ survival and distribution, in response to crop rotation. Therefore, the explicit consideration of the spatiotemporal dynamics of landscape composition can allow future studies to better evidence ecological processes behind observed species patterns and help developing new management strategies.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Sylvie Ladet and Nicolas Parisey for their useful help in collecting GIS information from VCG and ARM study areas, respectively; all persons involved in data sampling and species identification. We also thank all involved farmers for letting us working on their land. Finally, we want to thank Claire Vos and the two reviewers for their useful comments which helped us to significantly improve the manuscript. R.M. was funded by a Région Poitou–Charentes and Département des Deux-Sèvres Ph.D. grant. This work is part of the Landscaphid project and was supported by the ANR Systerra program (French National Research agency, ANR-09-STRA-05).

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  1. Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, CNRS & Université de La Rochelle, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France

    Ronan Marrec, Gaël Caro, Paul Miguet, Isabelle Badenhausser, Vincent Bretagnolle & Bertrand Gauffre

  2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada

    Ronan Marrec

  3. Laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement, UMR 1121, Université de Lorraine, 54518, Vandoeuvre, France

    Gaël Caro

  4. INRA, USC 1339 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France

    Isabelle Badenhausser & Bertrand Gauffre

  5. Agrocampus Ouest, UMR IGEPP 1349, 35653, Le Rheu, France

    Manuel Plantegenest

  6. Université de Toulouse, INPT ENSAT, UMR DYNAFOR 1201, 31320, Castanet Tolosan, France

    Aude Vialatte

  7. LTER « ZA Plaine & Val de Sèvre » , CNRS-CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France

    Vincent Bretagnolle

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Marrec, R., Caro, G., Miguet, P. et al. Spatiotemporal dynamics of the agricultural landscape mosaic drives distribution and abundance of dominant carabid beetles. Landscape Ecol 32, 2383–2398 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0576-x

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