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Biodiversity 13 FAR Foundation ForFOCUS Arable Research Issue 13, July 2018 FOCUS ISSUE Biodiversity 13 • What do we mean by “biodiversity” • Eco-system services and the benefits for arable farms • The benefits of biodiversity plantings on arable farms • Biodiversity and arable soils ® ADDING VALUE TO THE BUSINESS OF CROPPING © Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) DISCLAIMER This publication is copyright to the Foundation for Arable Research and may not be reproduced or copied in any form whatsoever without written permission. This FAR Focus is intended to provide accurate and adequate information relating to the subject matters contained in it. It has been prepared and made available to all persons and entities strictly on the basis that FAR, its researchers and authors are fully excluded from any liability for damages arising out of any reliance in part or in full upon any of the information for any purpose. No endorsement of named products is intended nor is any criticism of other alternative, but unnamed product. DISCLAIMER Unless agreed otherwise, the New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited does not give any prediction, warranty or assurance in relation to the accuracy of or fitness for any particular use or application of, any information or scientific or other result contained in this FAR Focus. Neither Plant & Food Research nor any of its employees shall be liable for any cost (including legal costs), claim, liability, loss, damage, injury or the like, which may be suffered or incurred as a direct or indirect result of the reliance by any person on any information contained in this FAR Focus. 2 FAR Focus 13 Biodiversity Contents List of figures and tables ......................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction: Biodiversity - Background and Definitions ................................ 5 2. Biodiversity on Arable Farms ............................................................................. 9 3. Biodiversity Projects ..........................................................................................12 4. Biodiversity Plantings ........................................................................................ 23 5. Biodiversity and Soil .......................................................................................... 31 6. Going Forward .................................................................................................... 35 Acknowledgements 2 List of figures and tables Figures Figure 1. A community effort to plant a riparian planting in Wairarapa. 7 Figure 2. FAR Focus 12 - Integrated Pest Management. 10 Figure 3. Honey bee on Hebe. 14 Figure 4. FAR Focus 7 - Crop Pollination. 14 Figure 5. Cabbage tree. 17 Figure 6. Pohutukawa. 17 Figure 7. Kowhai. 17 Figure 8. Beehives. 17 Figure 9 and 10. The Building Better Biodiversity site on a Canterbury farm in December 2013 (left) and again in December 2016 (right). 18 Figure 11 and 12. The Trees for Bees site on a Canterbury farm at just over a year old in December 2013 (left), planted in October 2012, and in March 2015 (right). 18 Figure 13. Pitfall trap. 18 Figure 14. Intercept trap. 18 Figure 15. Adult lacewing. 21 Figure 16. Carabid beetle. 21 Figure 17. Schematic of the planting plan. 25 Figure 18. A newly planted out bio-shelterbelt on a Canterbury cropping farm installed in September 2013. The newly installed seedlings are protected by CombiGuards©. 26 Figure 19. The same site 24 months after planting. 26 Figure 20. Building Better Biodiversity planting at Pendarves after four years. 30 Figure 21. Soil in a long term no tillage system. 32 Figure 22. Maize strip-tilled into a crimped winter cover crop of mixed species. 33 Figure 23. Bumble bee on Echium spp. 36 3 Tables Table 1. Pollinators, insect herbivores and pests (all pests and those pests found in vegetable and arable crops) associated with biodiversity planting options. Numbers in parentheses for pollinator species indicate number of species also described as predators. Only those plants species with distributions in the South Island, particularly within Canterbury, are included (table from Hedging our Bets report). 15 Table 2. The Simpson′s reciprocal index (1/D), total number of different beneficial species (pollinating bees and flies, generalist natural enemies, n = 29 species/orders) and sum of all individuals of all species/orders caught in traps (intercept and pitfall traps combined) for the different field boundaries and sample periods across the Canterbury farms. 21 Table 3. Insect species collected at the monitoring sites. 22 Table 4. A plant list for one of the 2013 Canterbury sites is provided as an example. 24 Table 5. Reasons to consider biodiversity plantings. 27 Table 6. Establishment and maintenance costs. 27 Table 7. Trees for Bees plant selection. 29 4 1. Introduction: Biodiversity - Background and Definitions Key points: • Biodiversity, both indigenous and exotic, is New Zealand’s biological wealth. It contributes to farming and forestry by providing a number of services without which our farm systems would become unsustainable. • New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy establishes four goals for conserving and sustainably managing our biodiversity. • Regional councils have individual programmes to enhance and restore biodiversity within their regions. They encourage community engagement. Many regional councils have funding set aside for biodiversity projects, this is accessible for on-farm projects such as riparian plantings, plantings for erosion control and retirement of bush areas. Biological diversity There is increasing interest worldwide in maintaining and improving biodiversity and many people consider Biological diversity or “biodiversity” describes the biodiversity to be an important measure of the health variety of all biological life, being plants and animals, of eco-systems and agricultural sustainability. Within fungi and microorganisms, the genes they contain, New Zealand, the Government and regional councils and the ecosystems where they live. Biodiversity have an active role in promoting and preserving encompasses all life forms and their interactions with biodiversity. each other. The community expectation of farmers is that natural Biodiversity is seen as being New Zealand’s biological resources are being protected and used efficiently and wealth. It contributes to the productivity of our land- farming methods are not imposing too big an impact based primary production; farming, forestry and on the environment. horticulture and provides a number of services, without which our farm systems would become Farmers can play a key role in improving the community unsustainable. It also contributes to the well-being of perceptions of their industry by contributing to the all New Zealanders. following; Biodiversity on land Ecosystems services Conservation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems Ecosystems services; are the multitude of resources and habitats, both natural and modified and the and processes that are supplied by natural indigenous species that live there. ecosystems. Conservation and use of genetic These services include: resources • Production of food. Conservation and use of the genetic resources of indigenous and important introduced species in New • Creation and maintenance of soils. Zealand and sharing their benefits. • Purification of water. Biosecurity and biodiversity • Decomposition of waste. Managing the risk to indigenous biodiversity and important introduced species from the introduction • Nutrient cycling. and spread of harmful organisms including; weeds, diseases, and insect and animal pests. • Provision of pollination and pest control. • Regulation of local and global climates. New Zealand’s Biodiversity • Provision of recreational and spiritual benefits. Strategy 2000-2020 These services are provided free of charge by www.doc.govt.nz/nature/biodiversity/nz-biodiversity- nature and are often taken for granted. A lack of strategy-and-action-plan/new-zealand-biodiversity- understanding of the functioning and the inter- strategy-2000-2020 relationships between these services may put them at risk to the extent that they are disrupted and no longer The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy fulfils in able to deliver their benefits. part, commitments New Zealand has made under 6 the Convention of Biological Diversity. It takes up Goal Three: Halt the decline in New the challenge to halt the decline of our indigenous Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity biodiversity — our unique plants and animals and the “Maintain and restore a full range of remaining natural places they live. habitats and ecosystems to a healthy functioning state, enhance critically scarce habitats, and sustain Four goals are established for conserving and the more modified ecosystems in production and sustainably managing New Zealand’s biodiversity: urban environments; and do what else is necessary. Goal One: Community and individual Maintain and restore viable populations of all action, responsibility and benefits indigenous species and subspecies across their “Enhance community and individual understanding natural range and maintain their genetic diversity.” about biodiversity, and inform, motivate and support widespread and coordinated community action to Goal Four: Genetic resources of conserve and sustainably use biodiversity; and introduced species “Maintain the genetic resources of introduced species Enable communities and individuals to equitably share that are important for economic, biological and
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