Biodiversity monitoring for selection of insect and spider bioindicators at local organic agricultural habitats in South Korea. Issue 10 (1st September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kim, Hoon; Sun, Yan; Kim, Tae‐Yeon; Moon, Myung‐Jin
• Is Part Of: Entomological research. Volume 50:Issue 10(2020)
• Page Start: 493
• Page End: 505
• Publication Date: 2020-09-01
• Subjects: biodiversity -- bioindicator -- insect -- Korea -- organic agriculture -- spider; Insects -- Korea -- Periodicals; Entomology -- Periodicals; 595.709519
• DOI: 10.1111/1748-5967.12469
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1738-2297

Abstract

Abstract: Invertebrates are very sensitive to environmental changes, and some terrestrial insects and spiders can be used as invaluable bioindicators to assess the quality of agricultural fields. In order to screen specific insect indicators from local habitats in organic farming areas, we conducted long‐term monitoring for three crop years (2016–2018) in Goesan‐gun district, Chungcheongbuk‐do, South Korea. Our monitoring results clearly show that the organic agriculture had a greater effect on biodiversity than conventional agriculture both of paddy and upland fields on a regional scale. A total number of 1, 138 species in 219 families and 25 orders were identified during 3 years. Among them, the number of species collected in the locations practicing organic farming was greater than the conventional farming both in the paddy fields (573 vs. 387 species) and upland fields (472 vs. 365 species). The total common species between organic and conventional fields were identified as 156 in the paddy field and 171 in the upland field, respectively. Finally, a total number of 24 (in paddy field) and 21 (in upland field) bioindicator candidate species were selected in the local habitat of the organic farming system based on our long‐term monitoring.