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DOI	10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109336
	Solar energy development impacts flower-visiting beetles and flies in the Mojave Desert
	Grodsky, Steven M.; Campbell, Joshua W.; Hernandez, Rebecca R.
通讯作者	Grodsky, SM (corresponding author), Cornell Univ, US Geol Survey, New York Cooperat Fish & Wildlife Res Unit, Dept Nat Resources & Environm, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
来源期刊	BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
ISSN	0006-3207
EISSN	1873-2917
出版年	2021
卷号	263
英文摘要	Deserts support a high diversity of insect pollinators and vascular plants with which pollinators have coevolved. Deserts are increasingly prioritized as recipient environments for ground-mounted solar energy development, which represents a novel, anthropogenic disturbance in desert ecosystems and drives land-use change across desert landscapes. Pollinators confer ecosystem services, yet anthropogenically driven land-use change has played a large role in their decline globally. Our objective was to elucidate relationships between solar energy development and non-bee insect flower visitors (i.e., beetles, flies, moths, and wasps) at Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS, 392 MW) in the Ivanpah Valley of the Mojave Desert. We used blue vane traps to collect non-bee insect flower visitors in treatments that represent different solar energy development decisions, including two types of site preparation practices (blading and mowing) and establishment of habitat patches in solar fields, replicated across three power blocks in ISEGS and in undeveloped control sites surrounding ISEGS. We determined that count and taxa richness of non-bee insect flower visitors and counts of individual non-bee insect flower visitor taxa were greater in undeveloped controls than in ISEGS. Our results indicate that disturbance from solar energy development negatively affected non-bee insect flower visitors, including beetles and flies, and that small habitat patches within solar fields in ISEGS largely did not support non-bee insect flower visitors. Disruption of non-bee insect flower visitor communities from solar energy development in deserts may lead to cascading effects on biodiversity, including potential decreases in globally imperiled and highly valuable cacti populations dependent on insect pollination. Losses in biodiversity from solar energy development in deserts may be eliminated by alternative siting (e.g., contaminated lands, rooftops), while gains can be achieved by sustainable decision making guided by solutions-oriented, collaborative research and techno-ecological synergies.
英文关键词	Beetles Cacti Flies Mojave Desert Non-bee insect flower visitors Solar energy
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000704917200004
WOS关键词	ANNUAL PLANTS ; SPECIALIZATION ; CONSEQUENCES ; POLLINATORS ; BOMBYLIIDAE ; PATTERNS ; ECOLOGY ; DIPTERA ; VALLEY ; LIGHT
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
来源机构	United States Geological Survey ; University of California, Davis
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362704
作者单位	[Grodsky, Steven M.; Hernandez, Rebecca R.] Univ Calif Davis, Wild Energy Initiat, John Muir Inst Environm, Davis, CA 95616 USA; [Campbell, Joshua W.] USDA, Northern Plains Agr Res Lab, Sidney, MT 59270 USA; [Hernandez, Rebecca R.] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Land Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA 95616 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Grodsky, Steven M.,Campbell, Joshua W.,Hernandez, Rebecca R.. Solar energy development impacts flower-visiting beetles and flies in the Mojave Desert[J]. United States Geological Survey, University of California, Davis,2021,263.
APA	Grodsky, Steven M.,Campbell, Joshua W.,&Hernandez, Rebecca R..(2021).Solar energy development impacts flower-visiting beetles and flies in the Mojave Desert.BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION,263.
MLA	Grodsky, Steven M.,et al."Solar energy development impacts flower-visiting beetles and flies in the Mojave Desert".BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 263(2021).