Mechanical management decreases arthropod biomass by changing vegetation structure in fallow fields of high conservation value

Datasets collected in fallow lands in the agricultural lands within the Lleida plain (Catalonia, north-eastern Spain) on 2022-2023. These data is analyzed in the research article: Mechanical management decreases arthropod biomass by changing vegetation structure in fallow fields of high conservation value (on press). See the article for further information on experimental design and data collection.

Datasets incude:

Biomass: arthropod abundance data, collected with pitfall traps, classified by order and converted to biomass values

Orthoptera: orthoptera counts from transects. Classified by body size

Pollinators: pollinators counts from transects. Classified by group, family and genre

Vegetation: all previous datasets include data from vegetation structure associated to the pitfall station or transect

Acknowledgements

We thank the field assistance of Jordi Artola, Pol Quintana, Laia Solé, Jaume Orta, Raúl Bastida, Albert Petit, Vitto Pedrochi, Esther Descalzo, Aïda Sabaté, and Xènia Jaumejoan. We also acknowledge Carme Bernat, Eva Maza and Raül Jiménez (on behalf of Aigües Segarra‐Garrigues S.A.) and Teresa Fainé (on behalf of Infraestructures de la Generalitat de Catalunya S.A.U.) for the facilities given as coordinators of the agricultural management. We thank Marga Reverter for facilitating a Hodar biomass conversion table. We thank Joan Estrada for his professional advice on the Orthoptera surveys.