Semi-Natural Habitats and Field Margins in a Typical Agroecosystem of the Argentinean Pampas as a Reservoir of Carabid Beetles

• Published in: Agroecology and sustainable food systems Vol. 34; no. 2; p. 153
• Main Authors: Marasas, Mariana E, Sarandón, Santiago J, Cicchino, Armando
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Ltd 15.02.2010
• Subjects: Agricultural ecosystems; Agronomy; Cereal crops; Ecosystems; Habitats; Insects; Reservoirs; Sustainable agriculture; Wheat; Argentina

Changes in edaphic carabidofauna abundance in a wheat crop plot, its field margins, and four semi-natural adjacent habitats were evaluated. A low specific richness of carabids was found in the wheat crop. No species was found exclusively in the wheat plot, but there were species found in the surroun...