Meadow harvesting techniques and their impacts on field fauna

By J. Humbert, J. Ghazoul, T. Walter. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Enhancing floral resources for pollinators in productive agricultural grasslands (2014, background): “Cutting management may have other negative consequence for native biodiversity as the catastrophic loss of vegetation can result in high levels of mortality for grassland invertebrates (Humbert et al., 2009).”
Changes in nectar supply: A possible cause of widespread butterfly decline (2012, background): “Thus, cutting frequency appears to have decreased in many areas to reduce costs and cutting by rotary mowers and cutting bars is increasingly replaced by flail cutting, resulting in a higher mortality of larvae in the vegetation (Humbert et al., 2009).”
Uncut grass refuges mitigate the impact of mechanical meadow harvesting on orthopterans (2012, background): “In view of this, leaving uncut grass areas within meadows has been recommended as a mitigation measure for field fauna (Dover et al., 2010; Gardiner and Hill, 2006; Humbert et al., 2009).”
Local and landscape management drive trait‐mediated biodiversity of nine taxa on small grassland fragments (2015, background): “While vertebrate herbivory is often selective and long term, mowing is a rather sudden event that unselectively removes a large part of the food resources available (Humbert et al., 2009).”
Is regular mowing the most appropriate and cost-effective management maintaining diversity and biomass of target forbs in mountain hay meadows? (2012, unknown): “A mosaic f different mowing regimes is also favourable for the soil fauna by leaving unmown strips: Humbert et al., 2009) and insects of he meadow canopy (including intermittent fallow periods: Balmer nd Erhardt, 2000).”
Effects of ecological compensation meadows on arthropod diversity in adjacent intensively managed grassland (2010, background): “, 1998) more negatively than ground beetle diversity (Morris, 2000; Humbert et al., 2009).”
Impact of different meadow mowing techniques on field invertebrates (2010, background): “A recent review (see Humbert et al. 2009) showed that mortality of amphibians and grasshoppers generally increases 1.5 times from bar mower (hand motor or tractor powered) to rotary mower.”
Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land‐use intensity affects orthopteran communities (2016, background): “The significant reduction of abundance of several Orthoptera species on frequently mown meadows in our study is consistent with current knowledge and corroborates findings of other studies (Humbert et al. 2009).”