This project aims to investigate the impact of implementing organic farming methods on invertebrate ecology. This is in terms of both invertebrates living on or amongst the crops, field margins, and the wider landscape. The usage of organic farming or low intensity management techniques is becoming increasingly widespread, and might be expected to have its first impacts on the invertebrate fauna. This project will attempt to quantify those changes, and predict the likely effects of more widespread uptake of organic over conventional management. It will model changes using data from the University's organic farm at Nafferton.
Key words: Invertebrate ecology, organic farming, modelling, community ecology
Funding Notes
Band 2a Fees
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