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| author | Matevski, Dragan Temperton, Vicky M Walmsley, David Härdtle, Werner Daniels, Jelena Boutaud, Estève |
| author_facet | Matevski, Dragan Temperton, Vicky M Walmsley, David Härdtle, Werner Daniels, Jelena Boutaud, Estève |
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| contents | Here we analysed the impacts of low (mowing) versus a newly developed high intensity (scarification, i.e. mowing with subsequent moss removal) management practice on spider biodiversity (abundance, taxonomic and functional diversity), as an excellent bioindicator for habitat quality shifts due to environmental change. We sampled spiders at 15 localities, 5 replicates of the two management practices each as well as 5 unmanaged controls in the Lüneburg Heath, Northern Germany, one year after the management was implemented. Pitfall traps were used, set in a transect with 10 m distance between traps. Five traps were set per locality from 03.04.2019-01.04.2020. Additionally, the cover of heather, grass, heather litter and bare soil was visually estimated in a 2 m radius around each trap and the distance to the nearest tree was measured. The sum of all cover classes do not always equal 100%. On the one hand, some cover classes were not used in the paper due to strong correlation with others (e.g. moss cover with bare soil cover) and are not presented here leading to lower values. On the other hand heather cover and heather litter were in some cases counted in the same area where heather letter was found below heather plants. |
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| spellingShingle | Impact of heathland management intensity on spider biodiversity Matevski, Dragan Temperton, Vicky M Walmsley, David Härdtle, Werner Daniels, Jelena Boutaud, Estève According to Red List of Germany (BfN 2016); Bare soil, cover; biodiversity conservation; Body length; Body mass, dry; Calculated; Catch duration; Catch per unit effort; Counting; Date/time end; Date/time start; Distance to nearest tree; Elevation of event; Estimated body mass based on Penell et al. (2018); Event label; Family; Functional guild; GBIF; Genus; Grass, cover; Heather, cover; Heather litter, cover; heathland; Identification based on Nentwig et al. (2024); Latitude of event; LH01; LH02; LH03; LH04; LH05; LH06; LH07; LH08; LH09; LH10; LH11; LH12; LH13; LH14; LH15; Location of event; Longitude of event; Lüneburg Heath, Germany; management; Management; Mean body length based on Nentwig et al. (2024); Military; Number of specimens; Phenological duration; Phenological length of adult spider activity in months according to Nentwig et al. (2024); Pitfall trap; PTRAP; Red list status, Germany; Reference in GBIF; Sample, dry mass; Sex; Species; Spider functional guild based on Cardoso et al. (2011); spiders; Survey ID; Tape measure; Trap ID; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Unit of effort; Visual inspection; Visually estimated within a 2 m-radius around trap Here we analysed the impacts of low (mowing) versus a newly developed high intensity (scarification, i.e. mowing with subsequent moss removal) management practice on spider biodiversity (abundance, taxonomic and functional diversity), as an excellent bioindicator for habitat quality shifts due to environmental change. We sampled spiders at 15 localities, 5 replicates of the two management practices each as well as 5 unmanaged controls in the Lüneburg Heath, Northern Germany, one year after the management was implemented. Pitfall traps were used, set in a transect with 10 m distance between traps. Five traps were set per locality from 03.04.2019-01.04.2020. Additionally, the cover of heather, grass, heather litter and bare soil was visually estimated in a 2 m radius around each trap and the distance to the nearest tree was measured. The sum of all cover classes do not always equal 100%. On the one hand, some cover classes were not used in the paper due to strong correlation with others (e.g. moss cover with bare soil cover) and are not presented here leading to lower values. On the other hand heather cover and heather litter were in some cases counted in the same area where heather letter was found below heather plants. |
| title | Impact of heathland management intensity on spider biodiversity |
| topic | According to Red List of Germany (BfN 2016); Bare soil, cover; biodiversity conservation; Body length; Body mass, dry; Calculated; Catch duration; Catch per unit effort; Counting; Date/time end; Date/time start; Distance to nearest tree; Elevation of event; Estimated body mass based on Penell et al. (2018); Event label; Family; Functional guild; GBIF; Genus; Grass, cover; Heather, cover; Heather litter, cover; heathland; Identification based on Nentwig et al. (2024); Latitude of event; LH01; LH02; LH03; LH04; LH05; LH06; LH07; LH08; LH09; LH10; LH11; LH12; LH13; LH14; LH15; Location of event; Longitude of event; Lüneburg Heath, Germany; management; Management; Mean body length based on Nentwig et al. (2024); Military; Number of specimens; Phenological duration; Phenological length of adult spider activity in months according to Nentwig et al. (2024); Pitfall trap; PTRAP; Red list status, Germany; Reference in GBIF; Sample, dry mass; Sex; Species; Spider functional guild based on Cardoso et al. (2011); spiders; Survey ID; Tape measure; Trap ID; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Unit of effort; Visual inspection; Visually estimated within a 2 m-radius around trap |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974523 |