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Data from flower margins support natural enemies adjacent to apple orchards but evidence of spill-over is mixed

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Data were collected from ten conventional commercial apple orchards in Kent, UK. They include; 1) abundance and identification of arthropods collected via transect sweep sampling from four orchard habitats (flower margins and the tree alleyway 50 m from the orchard edge in flower margin orchards, and grass headland and tree alleyway 50 m from the orchard edge in control orchards) along with sward height which was recorded from the corner of each quadrat during vegetation assessments using a measuring tape, 2) abundance and identification of arthropods collected via transect tap/beat sampling from apple trees in flower margin orchards and control orchards up to 50 m from the orchard edge (separate documents were used to record 2021 and 2022 data), 3) percentage cover of plant species recorded from six orchard habitats (flower margins and both the tree alleyway and understory 50 m from the orchard edge in flower margin orchards, and grass headland and both the tree alleyway and understory 50 m from the orchard edge in control orchards).

Resource Type: Dataset
Creators: Howard, Charlotte ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-9427
Rights-holders: University of Reading
Data Publisher: University of Reading
Publication Year: 2024
Data last accessed: 21 November 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.001355
Metadata Record URL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/1355
Organisational units: Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
Participating Organisations: University of Reading, Syngenta, NIAB, Cranfield University
Keywords: vegetation, sweep, tap sampling, beat sampling
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Data Availability: OPEN

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