DOI: 10.5061/dryad.547d7wmmw
title: Biological corridors are crucial habitat features that boost biodiversity in agroecological system of Argentina

description: The implementation of biological corridors in agroecosystems is a
 management strategy to increase biodiversity and create habitats for
 beneficial species that help reestablish biological and natural control by
 increasing the complexity of trophic networks and the provision of
 additional ecosystem services. Our aim is to ascertain and contrast the
 agrobiodiversity, ecological indicators, and associated trophic
 interactions of the arthropod populations, birds, mammals, and vegetation
 in two crops in an agroecological field and different types of biological
 corridors measured in 2022 in the south-central region of Buenos Aires
 province, Argentina. Comparing the shrub-herbaceous corridor to the
 agroecological crops, the former had the maximum richness, density of
 individuals/ha, and Shannon diversity index; the latter was observed in
 the tree-herbaceous corridor. This one has the highest number of
 interactions, level of grouping, and Agro Index. This suggests that there
 are more self-regulating mechanisms and more cohesiveness and integration
 among the system's constituent parts. The percentage of beneficial
 species in the shrub-herbaceous corridor and in the natural corridor was
 highest. Therefore, biological corridors in productive systems are a
 strategy that promotes the maintenance of health in agroecosystems, since
 they can provide resources and shelter habitat for beneficial insects,
 wild species (insectivorous and carnivorous birds), and thereby enhance
 the natural control of problem species. By increasing the interactions
 with the surrounding environment through biodiversity within productive
 systems, the use of native plants in biological corridors would allow the
 generation of more harmonious habitats. Practical implication. Our work
 shows for the first time in the region that biological corridors increase
 biodiversity and promote interactions between different components of the
 production system, using a methodology never before used in Argentina,
 such as the Griffon index. This study provides precise and understandable
 information for technicians, producers, and legislators on the effects of
 accurate and comprehensible information on the costs and effects of
 integrating biological elements in various production systems, which
 facilitates the adoption and promotion of the benefits of the inclusion of
 the practice in agroecosystems.
description: # Biological corridors are crucial habitat features that boost
 biodiversity in agroecological system of Argentina Dataset DOI:
 [10.5061/dryad.547d7wmmw](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.547d7wmmw) ##
 Description of the data and file structure * Data_Barrow.xls This file
 contains all the data obtained from the sampling, including the different
 plots, species, functional groups, and total numbers. This file describes
 biological interactions observed in the field. The column headers are:
 plot (habitat type), species (taxonomic identity), functional group
 (according to its ecological role) and total number (their abundance) *
 R_screen_Barrow.txt In this file are all the R screenshots for building
 the networks and for the link density (D) and clustering coefficient (C)
 indices for each plot studied. The main purpose of this file is to convert
 the raw interaction data into ecological networks, analyze them, and
 visualize them. ## Code/software The statistical program R (Team, 2013)
 was used to compute these metrics for the examination of networks and data
 in the Pajek format Griffon