Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context.

Organic farming, a low intensity system, may offer benefits for a range of taxa, but what affects the extent of those benefits is imperfectly understood. We explored the effects of organic farming and landscape on the activity density and species density of spiders and carabid beetles, using a large...

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Main Authors: Ruth E Feber, Paul J Johnson, James R Bell, Dan E Chamberlain, Leslie G Firbank, Robert J Fuller, Will Manley, Fiona Mathews, Lisa R Norton, Martin Townsend, David W Macdonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4550245?pdf=render