Together with Ezequiel González, we contributed to a pan-European study investigating how carabid beetle communities change from the field edges towards their interiors, which can be important for designing agricultural landscapes that support biodiversity. Interestingly, the number of small individuals/species increases towards the field edges (which is essential for biodiversity), while larger individuals are relatively more common within the fields (which is essential for pest and weed seed predation). Additionally, the influence of distance from the field edge varies significantly between crops. For instance, for cereals and oilseed rape that are common in the Czech Republic, there are typically only small changes in carabid beetle communities with changing distance from the field edge.
The freely available article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2383.
