Resource-mediated indirect effects of grassland management on arthropod diversity.

Intensive land use is a driving force for biodiversity decline in many ecosystems. In semi-natural grasslands, land-use activities such as mowing, grazing and fertilization affect the diversity of plants and arthropods, but the combined effects of different drivers and the chain of effects are large...

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Main Authors: Nadja K Simons, Martin M Gossner, Thomas M Lewinsohn, Steffen Boch, Markus Lange, Jörg Müller, Esther Pašalić, Stephanie A Socher, Manfred Türke, Markus Fischer, Wolfgang W Weisser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4154770?pdf=render