Claim · model-written summary
Monoculture habitat is poorer for species requiring mesoscale diversity.
- Taxon
- biomass energy farmst0
- Outcome
- habitat for species needing meso-scale diversitye0
- Direction
- poorere0
- Comparator
- multispecies systemse0
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Verbatim
e0“agricultural monocultures tend to be very uniform, compared to multispecies systems, and provide poorer habitat for species needing meso-scale diversity”
t0“biomass energy farms”
Title
Ecology of agricultural monocultures: Some consequences for biodiversity in biomass energy farms
Wayne Hoffman; Jan Beyea; Jim Cook OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) 1995
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Monocultures can have very high primary productivity.
- Observation Productivity is more punctuated in monocultures than multispecies systems.
- Association Folivorous insect diversity and abundance track foliage productivity.
- Mechanism Productivity gaps may bottleneck herbivore abundance and diversity.
- Observation Herbivore populations tend to be less stable in monocultures.
- Recommendation Tailor planting scales and crop combinations to support wildlife.