תוצאות חיפוש: חסרי חוליות

It was asked- to what extent do predators use non-crop habitats as refuges or breeding sites in the desert agroecosystem of the northern Negev, Israel? thet investigated the use of natural desert habitat, planted trees (Eucalyptus), and a summer crop (sunflowers) by winter-wheat inhabiting spiders.

It was studied whether the spider fauna in desert crops is influenced by the surrounding landscape in a similar way to that found in temperate climates.

They tested the effects of herbaceous vegetation enhancement on the abundance and richness of plants and arthropods in a wine-producing vineyard in Israel; compared the abundance and species richness of plants and arthropods between a plot seeded with local annual plants and an unseeded plot; compared soil content and grape quality parameters in seeded versus unseeded plots in the vineyard. 

Crop fields can harbor large populations of agrobionts, which may spill over into nearby semi-desert. they tested the influence of percentage area of agricultural fields on spider assemblages in semi-desert habitat of agroecosystems in the northwestern Negev desert, Israel.

Habitat loss reduces species diversity, but the effect of habitat fragmentation on number of species is less clear because fragmentation generally accompanies loss of habitat. They compared four methods that aim to decouple the effects of fragmentation from the effects of habitat loss.

Understanding species-diversity patterns in heterogeneous landscapes invites comprehensive research on how scale-dependent processes interact across scales. They used two common beetle families to conduct such a study in the heterogeneous semi-arid landscape of the Southern Judean Lowland of Israel, currently undergoing intensive fragmentation.