Pennycress double-cropping does not negatively impact spider diversity

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Pennycress double-cropping does not negatively impact spider diversity. / Groeneveld, Janna H.; Lührs, Hans P.; Klein, Alexandra Maria.
In: Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Vol. 17, No. 3, 08.2015, p. 247-257.

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Groeneveld JH, Lührs HP, Klein AM. Pennycress double-cropping does not negatively impact spider diversity. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 2015 Aug;17(3):247-257. doi: 10.1111/afe.12100

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title = "Pennycress double-cropping does not negatively impact spider diversity",
abstract = "Pennycress has been suggested as an alternative feedstock for bioenergy. Especially, its cultivation in a double-cropping system with corn appears to be promising for a sustainable production. As an aspect of its sustainability, we studied the effect of a pennycress-corn double-cropping system on spider diversity. We used a randomized block design with 60 pitfall traps to compare the system's spider diversity with that of three commonly applied corn rotations: mustard-corn, green fallow-corn and bare fallow-corn. We sampled from 13 March to 26 June 2012, which included the corresponding cultivation changes to corn. The pennycress-corn system harboured a higher spider species richness and diversity (Shannon index) than the other three systems, driven by web-building spiders. Abundance only differed between the pennycress- and bare fallow-corn system. However, separated into foraging guilds, hunting spiders were most abundant in the mustard-corn system, whereas web-building spiders were more abundant in the pennycress-corn than in the mustard- and bare fallow-corn system. The results obtained in the present study suggest that cultivation of pennycress as a biofuel feedstock in a double-cropping system has positive (and not negative) effects on the spider diversity compared with other commonly used cultivation systems.",
keywords = "Araneae, Biodiversity, Biofuels, Brassicaceae, Hunting spiders, Thlaspi arvense, Web-building spiders, Ecosystems Research",
author = "Groeneveld, {Janna H.} and L{\"u}hrs, {Hans P.} and Klein, {Alexandra Maria}",
year = "2015",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1111/afe.12100",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "247--257",
journal = "Agricultural and Forest Entomology",
issn = "1461-9555",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.",
number = "3",

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AU - Lührs, Hans P.

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