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Contrasting responses of plant and insect diversity to variation in grazing intensity
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Abstract The effects of grazing intensity on plant and insect diversity were examined in four different types of grassland (intensively and extensively cattle-grazed pastures, short-term and long-term ungrazed grassland; 24 study sites). Vegetation complexity (plant species richness, vegetation height, vegetation heterogeneity) was significantly higher on ungrazed grasslands compared to pastures but did not differ between intensively and extensively grazed pastures. However, insect species richness was higher on extensively than on intensively grazed pastures, established by suction sampling of four insect taxa (Auchenorrhyncha, Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera Parasitica). This may be due to intensive grazing disrupting plant–insect associations as predicted by a “trophic-level” hypothesis. Local persistence and small-scale recolonization of insects on plants appeared to be difficult in the highly disturbed environment of intensive grazing. Insect diversity increased across the four treatments in the following order: intensively grazed
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- Kruess, A., & Tscharntke, T.
- Venue
- Biological Conservation
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 293-302
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- 0006-3207 (ISSN-L)
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- W2010241687
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- 13.53
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- en
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