Discrimination between agricultural management and the hedge effect in pear orchards (south‐eastern France)

The arthropod populations in five pear orchards were sampled by beating branches twice a month during the year 2003 in the Provence region of south‐eastern France. Multivariate analyses linking the matrix of species with a certain number of environmental variables (distance from the hedge, type of agricultural practices in the orchard, year effect, etc.) were performed to identify the most explanatory variables in terms of composition and...