RT Journal Article
T1 Local Factors Rather than the Landscape Context Explain Species Richness and Functional Trait Diversity and Responses of Plant Assemblages of Mediterranean Cereal Field Margins
A1 Pallavicini, Yesica
A1 Bastida Milián, Fernando
A1 Hernández Plaza, Eva
A1 Petit, Sandrine
AB Arable field margins are valuable habitats providing a wide range of ecosystem services inrural landscapes. Agricultural intensification in recent decades has been a major cause of decline inplant diversity in these habitats. However, the concomitant effects on plant functional diversity areless documented, particularly in Mediterranean areas. In this paper, we analyzed the effect of marginwidth and surrounding landscape (cover and diversity of land use and field size), used as proxies formanagement intensity at local and landscape scales, on plant species richness, functional diversityand functional trait values in margins of winter cereal fields in southern Spain. Five functionaltraits were selected: life form, growth form, seed mass, seed dispersal mode and pollination type.RLQ and fourth-corner analyses were used to link functional traits and landscape variables. A total of306 plant species were recorded. Species richness and functional diversity were positively related tomargin width but showed no response to landscape variables. Functional trait values were affectedneither by the local nor landscape variables. Our results suggest that increasing the margin widthof conventionally managed cereal fields would enhance both taxonomic and functional diversity ofmargin plant assemblages, and thus the services they provide to the agro-ecosystem.
PB MDPI
SN 2223-7747
YR 2020
FD 2020-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18478
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18478
LA eng
NO Pallavicini, Y., Bastida, F., Hernández Plaza, E., ... Petit, S. (2020). Local Factors Rather than the Landscape Context Explain Species Richness and Functional Trait Diversity and Responses of Plant Assemblages of Mediterranean Cereal Field Margins. Plants, 9(6), 778. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9060778
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026