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Ground beetle assemblages respond to motorway proximity through changes in functional rather than taxonomic diversity in a grassland ecosystem
2022, Global Ecology and ConservationCitation Excerpt :Increased vegetation heterogeneity and structural complexity at roadside sites due to the presence of shrubs and ruderal plants in addition to typical grassland vegetation (Rebrina et al., 2021) possibly facilitates an increase in niche availability and, in turn, functional diversity of ground beetles, akin to the effects of vegetation succession (Schirmel et al., 2012). The investigated motorway is likely an impenetrable barrier to many ground beetles, with its verges acting as a longitudinal movement corridor (Vermeulen, 1994; Noordijk et al., 2011), which may also contribute to functional diversity of roadside assemblages. These patterns are further corroborated by an increase in taxonomic diversity of orthopteran assemblages observed at 25 m from the same motorway (Rebrina et al., 2021).
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2016, Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :This fact indicates that some populations are more vulnerable to roads than others and the relationship between gene flow and species traits are complex and determined by a combination of road- and landscape-related features. On the other hand, several studies hypothesized that road verges may act as potential dispersal corridors (e.g. Vermeulen, 1994; Huijser and Clevenger, 2006), but few confirmed the functional effect of road verges as corridors using the genetic structure analysis (e.g. Prunier et al., 2013; Villemey et al., 2016). To clarify the role of road features on patterns of gene flow, it is thus important to analyse multiple species in the same landscape by using identical methods (Schwenk and Donovan, 2011; Engler et al., 2014).
Testing bird response to roads on a rural environment: A case study from Central Italy
2015, Acta OecologicaCitation Excerpt :This result suggests that roads may contribute to “functional heterogeneity”, providing marginal habitats, hedgerows and residual vegetation (typical of road margins) suitable for some bird species (Morelli, 2013a; Tscharntke et al., 2008). Ways in which roads can provide benefit to birds taken from the literature, include: road surfaces retaining heat can reduce metabolic costs for birds that rest on them (Whitford, 1985), the presence of associated infrastructures (e.g., poles and bridges) can provide nesting sites (Forman et al., 2003), and verges or marginal vegetation related to roadsides that is used as a network of ecological corridors by insects (Hobbs, 1992; Vermeulen and Opdam, 1995; Vermeulen, 1994). This in turn can increase the availability of food sources (Lambertucci et al., 2009) or play an important role as breeding sites (Morelli, 2013a, 2013b) or dispersal of birds, as shelter or as stopover sites and in aiding invasion by several species.
Annual burning drives plant communities in remnant grassland ecological networks in an afforested landscape
2014, South African Journal of BotanyCitation Excerpt :They are burned annually before the start of the dry winter season. Similar to road verges in other parts of the world (Eversham and Telfer, 1994; Ries et al., 2001; Saarinen et al., 2005; Vermeulen, 1994), firebreaks form an extensive network throughout the landscape, which potentially enables them to contribute to biodiversity conservation in the timber production landscape. Indeed, mown firebreaks among timber compartments in the lower-lying Zululand provided early-successional habitat necessary for the survival of three grasshopper species that did not occur anywhere else in the EN (Bazelet and Samways, 2011).
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