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The role of pond management for biodiversity conservation in an agricultural landscape
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Debate surrounds the best way to deal with pond terrestrialization so as to maximize landscape‐scale biodiversity. One way of addressing this issue is to re‐set succession via management activities, but the merits of this approach relative to non‐intervention and pond creation are little known. Manor Farm in Norfolk, UK, possesses around 40 ponds, and each year three to four ponds are subject to management involving tree (de‐shading) and/or sediment removal. To determine the consequences of management for pond biodiversity, macrophyte and invertebrate communities were surveyed for replicate ponds covering four ‘time since management’ categories: no management, and managed over the periods 1999–2003, 2004–2006 and 2007–2009. Macrophyte diversity was significantly lower in unmanaged ponds compared with ponds managed in 2004–2006 and 2007–2009. In addition, with the exception of Mollusca, invertebrate diversity was significantly lower in the unmanaged ponds compared with all the managed ponds. A tendency was evident for diversity to peak 3–5 years after management and for a subsequent decline in diversity (significant for macrophytes). No distinctive species assemblages were associated with the different pond successional stages, although several species were confined to individual ponds. Although many species were absent from the non‐managed ponds, especially in the macrophytes and Coleoptera, few species were unique to these ponds. The principal driver of species turnover in t…
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“In addition, there is a growing body of research and expertise centered on the successful restoration and management of ponds in a variety of landscape settings, in particular European farmland and semi-natural habitats (Sayer et al. 2012;Sayer and Greaves 2020), Mediterranean coastal plains (Sebasti an-Gonz alez and Green 2014), and the prairies of Canada and the United States (Bortolotti et al.”
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- Authors
- Sayer, C., Andrews, K., Shilland, E., Edmonds, N., Edmonds‐Brown, R., Patmore, I., Emson, D., & Axmacher, J.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Salmon & Freshwater Team Cefas Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk UK
- University of Hertfordshire (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sayer, Carl
- Venue
- Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-06-20
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 626-638
- ISSN
- 1052-7613 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0755
- OpenAlex
- W1498664593
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 3.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- zenodo.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (University of Hertfordshire) (submittedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Keywords
- pond management, pond biodiversity, macrophyte diversity, tree shading, sediment removal, species turnover, oxygen concentration, agricultural landscapes
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