Crossing boundaries: flux of aquatic winged insects toward agricultural lands and its potential contribution to ecosystem services
Julien Raitif  1, 2, *@  , Jean Marc Roussel  2@  , Christophe Piscard  3@  , Manuel Plantegenest  4@  
1 : Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes  (IGEPP)  -  Website
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique : UMR1349
Domaine de la Motte au Vicomte BP 3532735653 Le Rheu -  France
2 : Écologie et santé des écosystèmes  (ESE)  -  Website
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique : UMR985
AGROCAMPUS OUEST 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc 35042 Rennes cedex -  France
3 : Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes]  (ECOBIO)  -  Website
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR6553
Bâtiment 14 - Université de Rennes 1 - Campus de Beaulieu - CS 74205 - 35042 Rennes Cedex - France -  France
4 : Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes  (IGEPP)
Agrocampus Ouest
AGROCAMPUS OUEST, UMR1349 IGEPP, F-35042 Rennes, France -  France
* : Corresponding author

Linkage between aquatic and terrestrial habitats aroused scientific interest on ecological subsidies, i.e. how the transfer of matter and energy between adjacent ecosystems can modify their own functioning. Freshwater ecosystems are widespread in agricultural landscapes, however the possible implication of aquatic subsidies is rarely considered. To fill this knowledge gap, we carried out a field work to study winged aquatic insects emergence and dispersal from twelve second-to-third order lowland streams in an intensive agricultural landscape in the northwest of France for one year. The contribution of aquatic insect emergence to ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes is discussed.


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