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Biodiversity and Conservation | 2011

Pasture area and landscape heterogeneity are key determinants of bird diversity in intensively managed farmland

Alexis Cerezo; María Cecilia Conde; Santiago L. Poggio

Agriculture intensification has drastically altered farmland mosaics, while semi-natural grasslands have been considerably reduced and fragmented. Bird declines in northern temperate latitudes are attributed to habitat loss and degradation in farmed landscapes. Conversely, landscape-modification effects on grassland/farmland bird communities are less studied in the South American temperate grasslands. We investigated how bird communities were influenced by landscape characteristics in the Rolling Pampa (Argentina). We sampled bird communities in 356 landscapes of 1-km radius that varied in cover and configuration of pastureland, flooding grassland and cropland. Using generalized linear models, we explored the relationship between both bird species richness and abundance, and landscape structure. Analyses were carried out for all species, and open-habitat, grassland and aquatic species. Pasture area was far the most important factor, followed by landscape composition, in predicting species richness and abundance, irrespective of specific habitat preferences, followed by partially-flooded grassland cover and its mean shape index. Grassland fragmentation did not affect species richness or abundance. When comparing the effects of landscape variables on bird richness and abundance (using mean model coefficients), pasture and grassland area effects were on average more than four times greater than those of compositional heterogeneity, and about ten times greater than shape effects. To conserve species-rich bird communities persisting in Rolling Pampa farmland, we recommend the preservation of pasture and grassland habitats, irrespective of their fragmentation level, in intensively managed farmland mosaics.


Journal of Natural History | 2013

Species diversity of entomophilous plants and flower-visiting insects is sustained in the field margins of sunflower crops

Juan Pablo Torretta; Santiago L. Poggio

Field margins are key landscape features sustaining biodiversity in farmland mosaics and through that, ecosystem services. However, agricultural intensification has encouraged fencerow removal to enlarge cropping areas, reducing farmland biodiversity and its associated ecosystems services. In the present work, we assess the role of field margins in retaining farmland biodiversity across the sunflower cropping area of Argentina. Flower-visiting insects and entomophilous plants were intensively sampled along the margins of sunflower fields, in eight locations across eastern Argentina. We recorded 149 species of flowering plants and 247 species of flower-visitors. Plants and arthropods were mostly natives. Most of the floral visitors captured provide ecosystem services to agriculture. Our results show that many species of beneficial insects and native plants occur in semi-natural linear features in the intensively managed farmland of Argentina. Field margins may constitute the last refugia of native plant species and their associated fauna in farmland mosaics. Conservation of field margins in Argentine farmland may therefore be essential for preserving biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.


Journal of Natural History | 2016

Diversity and life-history traits of wild bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in intensive agricultural landscapes in the Rolling Pampa, Argentina

Violette Le Féon; Santiago L. Poggio; Juan Pablo Torretta; Colette Bertrand; Gonzalo Alberto Roman Molina; Françoise Burel; Claudio M. Ghersa

ABSTRACT The decline of bees is a major concern due to their vital role in pollinating many crops and wild plants. Some regions in South America, and especially the Pampas, are amongst those parts of the world where stressors of bee populations have been little studied. The Pampas has been intensively transformed for agriculture, being presently one of the most productive areas of agricultural commodities in the world. Here, we aim to provide first insights on the taxonomic and functional composition of bee assemblages in the Rolling Pampa, the most intensively managed part of the Pampas. Soybean (herbicide-tolerant genetically modified varieties) is the predominant crop in this region. Bees were sampled with coloured pan traps. Sampling points were located on field margins in either the cropped or the semi-natural grassland area of a farmland site devoted to annual cropping. A total of 2384 individuals were caught, representing 33 taxa [mainly (morpho)species]. The subgenus Lasioglossum (Dialictus) largely dominated captures (78% of the total abundance) and was relatively abundant in the entire study area, suggesting that some species are likely to reach their ecological requirements in cropped areas. No-till fields and field margins may provide large areas for these below-ground nesting species, while their polylectic food preferences allow them to collect pollen on a wide range of plant species, among them possibly soybean. On the contrary, the richness and the abundance of other taxa were higher in the semi-natural area than in the cropped area. Among them, above-ground nesting or oil-collecting species, which have more specialised nesting and floral requirements, were highly associated with the semi-natural area. Our findings highlight the large dominance of L. (Dialictus) species in this highly intensively managed landscape, and the urgent need of preserving semi-natural habitats to maintain species-rich and functionally diverse bee communities in the Pampas.


Archive | 2015

Guests and gatecrashers in a New World’s banquet: Old World plant species introduced from the Mediterranean Basin enriched the flora of grasslands and croplands in the Pampas of Argentina

Santiago L. Poggio; Susana Perelman; Federico Pedro Otto Mollard; Rolando J.C. León

Fil: Poggio, Santiago Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomia. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura; Argentina


Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | 2005

Structure of weed communities occurring in monoculture and intercropping of field pea and barley

Santiago L. Poggio


Biological Conservation | 2010

Landscape complexity differentially affects alpha, beta, and gamma diversities of plants occurring in fencerows and crop fields

Santiago L. Poggio; Enrique J. Chaneton; Claudio M. Ghersa


European Journal of Agronomy | 2005

Pod and seed numbers as a function of photothermal quotient during the seed set period of field pea (Pisum sativum) crops

Santiago L. Poggio; Emilio H. Satorre; S. Dethiou; G.M. Gonzalo


Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | 2013

The arable plant diversity of intensively managed farmland: Effects of field position and crop type at local and landscape scales

Santiago L. Poggio; Enrique J. Chaneton; Claudio M. Ghersa


Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | 2004

Structure of weed communities occurring in pea and wheat crops in the Rolling Pampa (Argentina)

Santiago L. Poggio; Emilio H. Satorre; Elba B. de la Fuente


Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | 2014

Epigeal arthropod communities in intensively farmed landscapes: effects of land use mosaics, neighbourhood heterogeneity, and field position

Gonzalo Alberto Roman Molina; Santiago L. Poggio; Claudio M. Ghersa

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Claudio M. Ghersa

University of Buenos Aires

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Emilio H. Satorre

University of Buenos Aires

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José F. Andrade

University of Buenos Aires

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A.C. Moonen

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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