[Pollinator] Maintaining pollinator habitat

[Kathleen Law]

Hi Sabrina,

I have no direct experience but here's a list of studies on the topic to
get you started:


Bai, Y. G., Z. Abouguendia, and R. E. Redmann. 2001. Relationship between
plant species diversity and grassland condition. Journal of Range
Management 54:177–183.

Black, S. H., N. Hodges, M. Vaughan, and M. Shepherd. 2007. Pollinators in
natural areas: a primer on habitat management. Lloydia (Cincinnati):8.

Carvell, C. 2002. Habitat use and conservation of bumblebees (Bombus spp.)
under different grassland management regimes. Biological Conservation
103:33–49.

Dover, J. W., S. Spencer, S. Collins, I. Hadjigeorgiou, and A. Rescia.
2011. Grassland butterflies and low intensity farming in Europe. Journal of
Insect Conservation 15:129–137.

Elwell, S. L., T. Griswold, and E. Elle. 2016. Habitat type plays a greater
role than livestock grazing in structuring shrubsteppe plant–pollinator
communities. Journal of Insect Conservation.

Farruggia, A., B. Dumont, A. Scohier, T. Leroy, P. Pradel, and J. P. Garel.
2012. An alternative rotational stocking management designed to favour
butterflies in permanent grasslands. Grass and Forage Science 67:136–149.

Fischer, S. J., E. H. Williams, L. P. Brower, and P. A. Palmiotto. 2015.
Enhancing Monarch Butterfly Reproduction by Mowing Fields of Common
Milkweed. The American Midland Naturalist 173:229–240.

Hoffman, S., M. Shepherd, and M. Vaughan. 2011. Range Management for
Pollinators. Society for Range Management 33:9–13.

Hudewenz, A., A. M. Klein, C. Scherber, L. Stanke, T. Tscharntke, A. Vogel,
A. Weigelt, W. W. Weisser, and A. Ebeling. 2012. Herbivore and pollinator
responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in
plant species richness. Biological Conservation 150:42–52.

Kruess, A., and T. Tscharntke. 2002. Contrasting responses of plant and
insect diversity to variation in grazing intensity. Biological Conservation
106:293–302.

Kruess, A., and T. Tscharntke. 2014. Grazing intensity and the diversity of
grasshoppers, butterflies and trap-nest bees and wasps. Conservation
Biology 16:1570–1580.

Machmuller, M. B., M. G. Kramer, T. K. Cyle, N. Hill, D. Hancock, and A.
Thompson. 2015. Emerging land use practices rapidly increase soil organic
matter. Nature Communications 6:6995.

MacPhail, V., and J. Kyle. 2012. Rotational Grazing in Extensive Pastures.
Guelph.

McGraw, R. L., F. W. Shockley, J. F. Thompson, and C. A. Roberts. (n.d.).
Evaluation of native legume species for forage yield, quality and seed
production. Native Plants:152–160.

Morandin, L. A., M. L. Winston, V. A. Abbott, and M. T. Franklin. 2007. Can
pastureland increase wild bee abundance in agriculturally intense areas?
Basic and Applied Ecology 8:117–124.

Sjödin, N. E., J. Bengtsson, B. Ekbom, N. E. Sj, J. Bengtsson, and B.
Ekbom. 2015. The influence of grazing intensity and landscape on the
diversity and abundance of composition insects 45:763–772.

Sjödin, N. E., J. Bengtsson, and B. Ekbom. 2008. The influence of grazing
intensity and landscape composition on the diversity and abundance of
flower-visiting insects. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:763–772.

Technical, B., N. No, and D. May. 2011. Attachment to Biology Technical
Note No. KS-37 Dated May 31, 2011:1–23.

Vulliamy, B., S. G. Potts, and P. G. Willmer. 2006. The effects of cattle
grazing on plant-pollinator communities in a fragmented Mediterranean
landscape. Oikos 114:529–543.

Enjoy!

Kathleen Law
Outreach Program Manager
Pollinator Partnership

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Sabrina Malach <sabrinamalach at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I am in the process of creating a 20-acre bee sanctuary with native
> plants. Two years ago, we piloted the project and planted 4-acre. The first
> year we had a drought and little showed up and last year there was tons of
> rain and things were blooming.
>
> I was advised to mow 3 times a year to keep the non-native grasses that
> had been there for decades at bay.
>
> We hired someone to mow for us but it was expensive and carbon heavy. My
> friend has offered to let sheeps do the work and im wondering if anyone has
> utlitzed animals for ecological restoration. If so, please share your
> experience and lessons learned.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sabrina
>
>
>
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