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{"title":"Special issue: Biodiversity and ecosystem services in European vineyards: Innovative approaches for a sustainable future","authors":"Armin Bischoff , Anita Kirmer","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 59-61"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Residents’ perceptions of cultural ecosystem services from urban green spaces: A comparative study of Korea and Germany","authors":"Jaewon Son ,&nbsp;Yunjeong Lee ,&nbsp;Caroline Kramer ,&nbsp;Somidh Saha","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding public needs is crucial for effective management and planning of urban green spaces (UGS). UGS offer cultural ecosystem services (CES) that enhance human wellbeing. However, CES are challenging to measure, and vary across cultures, limiting cross-cultural research. This study examines public perceptions of CES from UGS in Suwon, Korea, and Karlsruhe, Germany, through a map-based PPGIS questionnaire. Respondents were urban residents in both cities, recruited through a combination of online outreach, local postings, and snowball sampling between July and September 2023. Karlsruhe residents visited UGS more frequently and spent more time there both before and after COVID-19 than Suwon residents. Most Suwon residents favored the nearest green spaces, while Karlsruhe residents preferred UGS farther from their homes. In Suwon, higher income was linked to a lower evaluation of biodiversity importance. Age and gender influenced the evaluation of biodiversity importance in both cities. Younger people visited UGS more often than older people after COVID-19 in both cities. In Karlsruhe, female respondents visited UGS more frequently than male respondents, whereas in Suwon, male showed a higher frequency. However, female respondents in Karlsruhe spent more time in UGS than males, while there was no statistically significant difference in Suwon. Education level was significant only in Suwon, where individuals with university education spent more time in UGS after COVID-19 than those without. These findings reflect how cultural and socio-demographic factors shape human-nature interactions, supporting theoretical perspectives such as the biophilia hypothesis, social ecology, and environmental psychology. Integrating these interdisciplinary insights into UGS planning can help create inclusive, culturally responsive, and ecologically meaningful urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 32-51"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144889756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying risk factors for the rare, endangered fen orchid Liparis loeselii in NE Germany with a fresh approach","authors":"Kai Hobritz ,&nbsp;Franziska Tanneberger ,&nbsp;Johannes Metz","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fen mires are one of the most threatened habitats in Central Europe and harbor numerous specialized plant species. One of these species is the fen orchid <em>Liparis loeselii</em>, which is threatened and declining in most European inland fens. However, the risk factors driving the species’ decline are poorly understood. We therefore studied vegetation structure, species composition, and abiotic conditions at 17 current sites with extant and 11 former sites with extinct populations in north-eastern Germany. The methodological challenges posed by the patchiness and rarity of the species were tackled with a fresh approach that combined systematically random plots (assessing common, average habitat conditions) with selectively placed plots (targeting L. <em>loeselii</em> microhabitats). Compared to current sites, former sites of extinct populations were characterized by lower moisture, higher peat degradation, higher nutrient availability, lower moss and herb cover, higher abundancies of nitrophytes and common grassland species, and less fen specialist species. Similar differences emerged between average habitat conditions and L. <em>loeselii</em> microhabitats; and the latter furthermore featured lower vegetation height, higher light availability, and higher proportions of bare soil. Our study indicates that the main risk factors for L. <em>loeselii</em> in our study region resulted from enhanced fen degradation, where lowered water tables due to drainage or drought degraded the upper peat layers and released nutrients. This changed the species composition toward taller, more competitive species which increased shading, litter cover, and limited open patches and brown mosses, ultimately leading to local extinctions. It is therefore crucial that permanently high water tables are maintained or restored to protect L. <em>loeselii</em> – and fen mires in general. Our approach proved successful with only moderate sample size and may facilitate investigating other rare species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 72-82"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145095556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of submontane meadows management on the structure of millipede (Diplopoda) communities","authors":"Slavomír Stašiov ,&nbsp;Andrea Diviaková ,&nbsp;Vladimír Pätoprstý ,&nbsp;Marek Svitok","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Semi-natural submontane meadows are biodiversity-rich habitats that require appropriate management for conservation; however the effects of management on millipede communities remain understudied. We investigated millipede communities across 30 plots in mowed, grazed, and abandoned meadows at 10 localities in central Slovakia using pitfall traps in 2018. In total, 705 individuals from 15 species were collected. Mowed meadows had the highest average activity density (43.4 individuals), species richness (5.6 species), and Shannon diversity (<em>H</em> = 1.32), followed by grazed meadows. In contrast, abandoned meadows showed the lowest average values (9.6 individuals, 2.9 species, <em>H</em> = 0.83). Species composition differed across habitat types, with <em>Megaphyllum projectum</em> favouring grazed meadows and <em>Unciger transsilvanicus</em> and <em>Mastigona bosniensis</em> preferring managed meadows (mowed and grazed), and <em>Glomeris tetrasticha</em> was more abundant in abandoned meadows. Plot area and distance to continuous forest were identified as significant predictors of community composition. Millipede activity density increased with plot area but declined with increasing distance from continuous forest. Species richness also showed a positive relationship with plot area but decreased with higher soil nitrogen content. Soil nitrogen further had a negative effect on Shannon diversity, whereas solar radiation exerted a positive influence. Mowing emerged as the most suitable management practice, whereas grazing and abandonment were less favourable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 94-103"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145154490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Floral richness shapes plant-pollinator networks in urban agroecosystems","authors":"Stacy M. Philpott ,&nbsp;Gabriella Pardee ,&nbsp;Jenny Hsu ,&nbsp;Andy J. Kulikowski II ,&nbsp;Peter Bichier ,&nbsp;Heidi Liere ,&nbsp;Brenda B. Lin ,&nbsp;Shalene Jha","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Species richness, a fundamental driver of agroecosystem function, is shaped by habitat management and landscape surroundings. Yet, delivery of ecosystem services, like pollination, in agroecosystems is dependent on ecological interactions, not just species richness. Documenting changes in functional groups and ecological networks can inform expected shifts in mutualistic dynamics and impacts on ecosystem services. We recorded pollinator visitation to plants in 23 urban agroecosystems in California during July 2021 and used generalized linear models to examine how local management and landscape changes influenced abundance and species richness of three pollinator functional groups (bees, flies, butterflies/moths) and plant-pollinator networks. We observed 99 pollinator species visiting 157 plant species. Together, three pollinator species accounted for &gt;52 % of the pollinator visits. Five plant species hosted nearly 30 % of pollinator visits. Pollinator species richness increased with higher floral richness, but decreased with more natural habitat in the landscape, potentially due to a dilution effect. Bee richness increased with higher bee abundance, higher floral richness, smaller mean flower size, and larger garden size, but bee abundance and richness declined with more natural habitat cover. Fly richness increased with higher fly abundance and decreased with larger garden size. Butterfly/moth richness increased with higher butterfly/moth abundance, while butterfly/moth abundance declined with more natural habitat cover. Network specialization increased while nestedness, interaction evenness, and connectance all decreased with higher herbaceous plant species richness, but no other local or landscape changes affected network metrics. Individual pollinator and plant species differed in degree of specialization. Pollinator functional groups selectively visited different plants with bees more likely to visit ornamentals, flies more likely to visit crops, and butterflies more likely to visit weeds. We show that urban agroecosystems can support pollinators, and that changes to floral richness, flower volume, and natural habitat cover are the most important for shaping ecological interactions between pollinators and plants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 114-127"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145319858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human pressure can reduce genetic diversity and elevate trophic position: an arthropod case study","authors":"Iris S. Schlick-Steiner ,&nbsp;Kelly Penning ,&nbsp;Marion Pranter ,&nbsp;Barbara Thaler-Knoflach ,&nbsp;Florian M. Steiner ,&nbsp;Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban and agricultural areas are covering ever more land, deteriorating animal habitats. So far, there exist a limited number of studies on urbanisation and even fewer studies on the impact of agriculture. To find out how this overall human pressure, that is, hemeroby, affects arthropods, we chose an interdisciplinary approach by studying genetic diversity and trophic position of the spiders <em>Araneus diadematus</em> and <em>Nuctenea umbratica</em> and the ant <em>Formica fuscocinerea</em>. We collected five specimens per species from fifty 500 × 500 m square plots in a medium-sized Central-European city with green surroundings. Firstly, genetic analyses using newly developed microsatellites revealed a significant effect of hemeroby on <em>Araneus diadematus</em>, that is, reduced genetic diversity. Secondly, likewise in <em>Araneus diadematus,</em> the stable isotope δ¹⁵N increased with hemeroby, possibly due to a major food-spectrum change. Thus, we found that hemeroby can negatively impact arthropods. We believe our findings are relevant to urban planning, particularly given that even stronger effects can be expected for larger and more urbanised cities and in less vagile organisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 52-58"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rich assemblages of native pollinators profit from flowering strips with lacy phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) and from monocultures of this plant","authors":"Tomáš Chvojka ,&nbsp;Antonín Hlaváček ,&nbsp;Petr Bogusch","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The cultivation of flowering strips on arable land is one way to support the nonproductive functions of agriculture, including strengthening the conservation of pollinators in the landscape. Despite this, a comprehensive assessment of the ecological benefits of such measures and their importance for pollinating insects is still lacking. Therefore we investigated the effects of lacy phacelia on pollinator communities and annual mixed stands in which lacy phacelia was one of the plant components. The research was carried out in 28 monocultures of lacy phacelia and 28 flowering strips with lacy phacelia proportions in the Czech Republic. At each site, within a defined transect, we conducted netting of bees and wasps, hoverflies and butterflies. Both monocultures and mixed stands attracted a wide range of species. The species diversities and abundances of most of the pollinator groups studied were greater in mixed stands, where butterflies and non-aphidophagous hoverflies were significantly more numerous and diverse. Lacy phacelia flowers were mainly visited by common, nonspecialized insects, whereas mixed stands were more attractive to a greater number of specialists. Our findings therefore point to the significant benefits of flowering strips including lacy phacelia for pollinating insect communities in agricultural landscapes, and we recommend the support of flower strips including lacy phacelia in EU agri-environment schemes. We additionally draw attention to the importance of a detailed understanding of pollinator relationships in a landscape context and highlight the need for further studies to contribute to the design of additional functional measures for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 104-113"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anthropogenic noise can decrease tomato reproductive success by hindering bumblebee-mediated pollination","authors":"Zsófia Varga-Szilay ,&nbsp;Gergely Szövényi ,&nbsp;Gábor Pozsgai","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.05.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anthropogenic noise is a little-studied type of pollution that negatively affects the physiology, nervous function and development of insects. Thereby, it has the potential to disrupt even key ecological services such as pollination. Here, we investigate the effects of anthropogenic noise on the pollination success of tomatoes pollinated by <em>Bombus terrestris,</em> under controlled conditions. We hypothesised that bumblebees avoid flowers exposed to noise more than flowers in non-noisy environments, leading to less efficient pollination and lower fruit quality. Three treatments were applied to randomly chosen plants and flowers in polytunnels in Hungary: noisy (with played traffic noise and allowing bumblebees to access the flowers); and two non-noisy, one allowing bumblebees and one excluding them. The flowers were bagged with nets before anthesis to prevent bumblebee visits, opened/unbagged exclusively during treatment, and re-bagged for three more days post-treatment. We recorded the market value of the fruits and the number of seeds they produced. We found no significant differences in the market value of fruits among treatments, but the number of seeds was significantly lower in the noisy treatment, suggesting that anthropogenic noise has substantial effects on bumblebee-mediated pollination. Although these effects may be mitigated by habituation, loud external noise of various machines (e.g. irrigation systems) within polytunnels is still likely to contribute to the everyday noise exposure of bumblebees and could thus potentially lead to hidden economic losses in production. Therefore, further research is needed to understand the behavioural effects of both direct and indirect noise pollution on bumblebees.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 11-19"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Management-induced micro-habitats in crop fields alter the trait composition of arable plant communities","authors":"Elsa Lagerquist,&nbsp;Göran Bergkvist,&nbsp;Alexander Menegat","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modern cropping systems typically involve extensive soil disturbance and high fertiliser use. Plants other than the crop are controlled to avoid potential crop yield losses. However, crop fields are not homogeneous ecosystems. Rather, they comprise several micro-habitats differing in disturbance intensity, inter-specific competition and resource availability. Understanding how weed and crop management affects the trait composition of arable plants could help finding management practices that favour less competitive species or species providing valuable ecosystem services. This study examined the traits within the arable plant community and their association with disturbance and competition levels. The relationship between micro-habitats and plant species traits was investigated using RLQ analysis, in which micro-habitats and traits were linked using species count data. The environmental variables forming micro-habitats were: biomass of main crop and intercropped service crop, frequency of mechanical disturbance and within-crop sampling location. Intermediate to high competition and intermediate disturbance reduced the presence of competitive arable plant species compared with low competition and highest and lowest disturbance, while favouring a diverse group of ruderal species. High service crop biomass in the main crop row, compared with low, reduced the presence of arable plant species that were associated both with ruderal and competitive traits (competitive-ruderals), while favouring the diverse group of ruderal species. The analysis showed distinctions in traits associated with different micro-habitats, but to better guide interpretations regarding species’ harmfulness to crops, species characteristics based on combinations of traits have to be defined at a finer scale, especially for ruderal species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 66-73"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trait-mediated insect colonization of newly established grassland strips in agricultural landscapes","authors":"Maria Peer ,&nbsp;Sophie Kratschmer ,&nbsp;Raja Imran Hussain ,&nbsp;Manuela Bürgler ,&nbsp;Bea Maas ,&nbsp;Dominik Rabl ,&nbsp;Ronnie Walcher ,&nbsp;Tobias Schernhammer ,&nbsp;Norbert Schuller ,&nbsp;Nora Vogel ,&nbsp;Matthias Heer ,&nbsp;Simon Zwatz ,&nbsp;Bernhard Krautzer ,&nbsp;Dietmar Moser ,&nbsp;Thomas Frank","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.05.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Restoring grasslands in agroecosystems through the establishment of grassland and flowering strips has been demonstrated to promote insects. However, the development of the functional composition of insect assemblages in newly established grassland, which determine how species contribute to key ecosystem processes such as pollination, nutrient cycling, and pest control, are less understood. We applied a trait-based approach to investigate the functional insect richness of newly established grassland strips (NG) compared to adjacent permanent, semi-natural “old” grasslands (OG) over a six-year time span in an agricultural landscape in Austria. Specifically, our study focused on identifying species-specific traits that differentiate the assemblages of wild bees, syrphids, butterflies, orthopterans and heteropteran bugs in OG and NG. Our results show that compared to OG, insects in NG were more likely to be more mobile (butterflies, orthopterans, heteropteran bugs), less likely to be zoophagous (syrphids, orthopterans, heteropteran bugs), less likely to be feeding specialized (wild bees, orthopterans, heteropteran bugs) and less likely to be wood associated (butterflies). Investigating the temporal development of traits, our study reveals a shift in the abundance of zoophagous syrphids and mobile orthopterans following the establishment of NG: while we found lower numbers of zoophagous syrphids and mobile orthopterans in the first three years after the establishment of NG, this was no longer the case after five years.</div><div>Our study suggests that although plant-diverse new grassland strips may exhibit equal taxonomic richness as permanent grasslands if created near the latter, they promote different functional compositions, even six years after establishment. Due to the lower initial occurrence of zoophagous insects following grassland establishment compared to permanent grassland, benefits for pest control could be delayed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}