Sentence examples for arable habitat from inspiring English sources

Excluding arable habitat, there were no significant relationships at all.

Excluding arable habitat, the number of patches correlated significantly with pooled MCP TS (r = 0.366, N = 97, P = 0.0002) and INT TS (r = 0.342, N = 57, P = 0.009).

In general, relationships excluding arable habitat were weaker and fewer were significant, but results remain mixed in terms of support for the RDH, whether arable land is included or not.

Excluding arable habitat and combining all years, five-food patch distance was unrelated to MCP TS (r = 0.137, N = 97, P = 0.182) and INT TS (r = -0.043, N = 57, P = 0.751).

It is however not clear if these species generally prefer arable habitats, or to what degree they utilize other habitats during times when crops are inhospitable.

Along a gradient of increasing crop production, we observed a shift from locally species-diverse communities dominated by generalist or grassland specialist species towards species-poor communities dominated by granivorous species specialized in arable habitats (all p-values ≤ 0.002).

Small remnants of non-arable habitat within the farmland mosaic are considered important for the conservation of farmland biodiversity, but their contribution to landscape-scale species richness is poorly understood.

The relative contribution of small fragments of non-arable habitat to total plant species richness was high within all landscape types, especially in relation to the small area they covered.

We conclude that small fragments of non-arable habitat are important for plant species richness at the landscape-scale and that their importance for plants may cascade to the bees that use them as foraging resources.

Bombus terrestris used the different habitat types differently during different parts of the growing season: arable fields were important early in the season, leys late in the season, and small non-arable habitat fragments during the mid-season when no mass-flowering crops were in bloom.

Succession continued after 5 years, with increasing species richness, perennials and species characteristic of non-arable habitats.