Carabid beetles and ground-dwelling spiders inhabiting agroecosystems are beneficial
organisms with a potential to control pest species. Intensification of agricultural management …

Non-crop habitats are supposed to provide valuable resources to beneficial arthropods
inhabiting agricultural landscapes during both the growing and winter seasons …

Carabids are considered beneficial arthropods in agroecosystems, where they prey on crop
pests or consume weed seeds. Therefore, knowledge of the spatial distribution of carabids …

Pitfall traps are widely used for sampling ground-dwelling arthropods. Their sampling
efficiency is affected by several factors, eg material, size and modification of parts of the trap …

Pitfall trapping is a widely used sampling technique that is standardly employed to collect
various data on ground-dwelling arthropods. However, the validity of this method as a …

The diversity and community composition of ground arthropods is routinely analyzed by
pitfall trap sampling, which is a cost‐and time‐effective method to gather large numbers of …

Pitfall trapping is an approved self-sampling method for capturing epigeal arthropods for
ecological and faunistic studies. Capture efficiency of pitfall traps may be affected by …

The total length of highways worldwide has increased continuously over recent decades.
Highways and their roadside verges may substantially affect species dispersal, and the …

Over the past decades, large amounts of data about carabids have been collected in the
Netherlands, initially for the purpose of creating distribution maps for the country. In addition …

Landscape heterogeneity and higher complexity generally increase biodiversity in
agroecosystems. Carabid beetles represent abundant and important predators of pests and …