Edges within farmland: Management implications of taxon specific species richness correlates

摘要: Abstract In intensively farmed landscapes worldwide, edges separating fields from managed forests represent potential biodiversity reservoirs. We examine variables strongly associated with species richness of several taxa representing diverse ecological guilds – vascular plants, carabids, butterflies, birds and small mammals inhabiting farmland-forest in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Our main objective was to assess the edge characteristics that could be for enhancing studied taxa. found only weak between-taxon correlations hence often taxon-specific responses geography, vegetation, adjoining site management, surrounding habitat diversity density. Therefore, environmental one taxon are not influential other Still, width, diversified management farmland or forest patches, landscape heterogeneity distances contributed all groups, suggesting these parameters should targeted by managers order enhance biodiversity.