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Road verges are corridors and roads barriers for the movements of flower-visiting insects

SND-ID: 2021-215

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Juliana Dániel-Ferreira - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of ecology orcid

Åsa Berggren - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of ecology orcid

Jörgen Wissman - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Biodiversity Centre orcid

Erik Öckinger - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of ecology orcid

Description

This publication makes part of the research project GINFRA – green rights-of-way infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem services. The aim of the project is to quantify whether linear infrastructure habitats (road verges, power line corridors, etc) support biodiversity by assessing the influence of the amount of this habitats in the landscape and their contribution to landscape connectivity.

The linked data was collected by experimentally tracking the movements of flower-visiting insects using fluorescent dye placed along the road verges and adjacent habitat of 20 sites that varied in the number of vehicles per day and on the habitat quality of the road verges. The data set consists of 240 observations. The first 120 observations correspond to the colour blue and the last 120 to the colour red.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Principal's reference number

SLU.ekol.2021.4.4.IÄ-4

Responsible department/unit

Department of ecology

Funding 1

  • Funding agency: Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) rorId
  • Funding agency's reference number: 942-2015-988

Funding 2

  • Funding agency: Stiftelsen Oscar och Lili Lamms Minne rorId
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

2019-06-10 – 2019-06-30

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Stockholm County, Uppsala County, Södermanland County

Geographic description: The data was collected in 20 sites located in the area of Mälardalen (Stockholm, Uppsala och Södermanland).

Topic and keywords

Research area

Biological Sciences, Ecology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

landscape connectivity, hoverflies, landscape, butterflies, dispersal, bees, linear infrastructure habitats

Publications

Dániel-Ferreira, J., Berggren, Å., Wissman, J. and Öckinger, E. (2022), Road verges are corridors and roads barriers for the movement of flower-visiting insects. Ecography. 2022 (2), e05847.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05847

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Data for: Road verges are corridors and roads barriers for the movements of flower-visiting insects

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Juliana Dániel-Ferreira, Åsa Berggren, Jörgen Wissman, Erik Öckinger. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2021). Data for: Road verges are corridors and roads barriers for the movements of flower-visiting insects. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/h758-5n57

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Juliana Dániel-Ferreira - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of ecology orcid

Åsa Berggren - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of ecology orcid

Jörgen Wissman - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Biodiversity Centre orcid

Erik Öckinger - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of ecology orcid

Keywords

landscape connectivity, hoverflies, landscape, butterflies, dispersal, bees, linear infrastructure habitats

Time period(s) investigated

Variables

16

Published: 2021-08-26
Last updated: 2022-06-30