Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land‐use intensity affects orthopteran communities

Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land‐use intensity affects orthopteran communities

Abstract Land use and corresponding habitat loss are major drivers of local species extinctions. Orthoptera as important grassland herbivores showed different responses to land‐use intensity in different studies, and the susceptibility of this group remains unclear. We sampled annually for seven yea...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Melanie N. Chisté, Karsten Mody, Martin M. Gossner, Nadja K. Simons, Günter Köhler, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Nico Blüthgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-11-01
Series:Ecosphere
Subjects:
anthropogenic disturbance
Biodiversity Exploratories
effective Shannon diversity
feeding habit
grasshoppers
grassland management
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1545

Internet

https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1545

Similar Items