Investigation of pollinator communities in permaculture, organic and conventional farms in the Szentendre Island
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https://doi.org/10.56617/tl.3435Keywords:
pollination, sustainable agriculture, ecosystem-service, ecological intensificationAbstract
As a result of agricultural intensification in parallel with the strong growth of the human population, we need to pay more attention to the responsible use of resources and the maintenance of the proper functioning of ecosystems. The various pollinators play a prominent role in the functioning, as they provide about 84% of the production of fruit and vegetable production, which production requires significant resources through artificial pollination. In our case study, we measured the effects of three different farming systems (permaculture, organic and conventional) on Szentendre Island in terms of farm-level temporal average number and diversity of pollinator species groups. Visual sampling was performed in all areas in 2019., for a total of four-time points (May 19, July 4, July 22 and September 05). Of the three farms, the permaculture farm had the highest total temporal average number of pollinators and the diversity of taxonomic groups during the study year. In conclusion, the establishment and maintenance of farms that provide spatially and temporally diverse bee pastures are extremely important in maintaining adequate temporal average number and diversity of pollinators, and thus securing long-term crop production which requires pollination. It seems that permaculture farms can provide this to a greater extent than organic or conventional.
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