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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary Only |
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| Author(s): | Keilsohn, W. A.;
Tallamy, D. |
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| Author Affiliation: | University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
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| Title: | The effects of roadside habitat on insect traffic mortality |
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| Section: | Research posters
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| Meeting Info.: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 3-7, 2016 |
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| Source: | Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Plant, Pest, and Soils Conference. 2016, p. 88. |
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| Publishing Information: | s.l.: Northeastern Weed Science Society; the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America; the Northeastern Division of the American Phytopathological Society; the Northeast Branch of the American Society of Agronomy; the Crop Science Society of America; the Soil Science Society of America; and the American Society of Horticultural Science-Northeast Region |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Evaluative methods; Habitat improvement; Habitats; Insect behavior; Scouting
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Paved roadways span over 4.1 million miles across the continental United States (U.S. Highway Admin. 2013). They are frequently bordered by both natural and restored habitats, and could provide important real estate for conservation. Because animals are frequently killed by auto traffic, there is concern that roadside habitats may be ecological traps, luring animals to their death rather than helping to build their populations. An alternative untested hypothesis is that good roadside habitat actually decreases animal mortality because it reduces the need for animals to leave the habitat. We tested this hypothesis in three roadside habitats: Woods, Meadows, and Lawns. We further confined our study only to roads with relatively high speed and heavy traffic volume. We divided our study sites into areas with and without a median strip and were careful to select areas where the median strip contained the same habitat as the edges of the road. We established thirty sites, five for each type of habitat both with and without a median, and at each site we surveyed a two hundred meter transect on each side of the road. We measured all animal mortality along each transect but our focus was on insects. We also counted all flowers within two meter of the edge of the road and collected all dead specimens under ten centimeters in size. We found that wooded areas along roads had significantly lower insect mortality when compared to lawn or meadow areas." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Keilsohn, W. A., and D. Tallamy. 2016. The effects of roadside habitat on insect traffic mortality. p. 88. In Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Plant, Pest, and Soils Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 3-7, 2016. s.l.: Northeastern Weed Science Society; the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America; the Northeastern Division of the American Phytopathological Society; the Northeast Branch of the American Society of Agronomy; the Crop Science Society of America; the Soil Science Society of America; and the American Society of Horticultural Science-Northeast Region. |
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