Beetles responses to edges in fragmented landscapes are driven by adjacent farmland use, season and cross-habitat movement

Temporal patterns of species richness, abundance, and movement across edges between remnant woodlands and four farmland uses (plantings, fallow, annual crops, woody debris applied over crops post harvest) in southeastern Australia. Directional pitfall traps allow inference of movement (by looking at relative abundance in traps on either side of drift fences). Beetles were sampled at edges, and 20 m and 200 m on both sides of edges, during spring and summer in eleven sites within the Lachlan River Catchment, New South Wales, Australia.