Local and landscape management drive trait‐mediated biodiversity of nine taxa on small grassland fragments
By Urs G. Kormann, Verena Rösch, P. Batáry, T. Tscharntke, K. Orci, F. Samu, C. Scherber. 2015
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Biodiversity across the globe is heavily eroded by intensified management at local and landscape scales. Species communities of calcareous grasslands, which are among Europe's most diverse habitats, are severely threatened by the cessation of appropriate traditional management, loss of habitat connectivity and simplification of the surrounding landscape. However, our understanding of these often interrelated factors remains limited, in particular for trait‐mediated responses across taxa. Here, we test the independent effects of local management (grazing, mowing and abandonment), habitat connectivity (measured by a connectivity index) and landscape complexity (indicated by the percentage of arable land) on nine taxa: plants, butterflies, bees, grasshoppers, hoverflies, spiders, true bugs, rove beetles and leafhoppers on small semi‐natural calcareous grassland remnants (< 1 ha).
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science
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- Ecological theory provides strong support for habitat restoration (2017, background): “In addition to plants, habitat connectivity, landscape heterogeneity and habitat area have been shown to be important to diversity of a number of animal groups (Kormann et al., 2015; Rösch et al., 2013; Brückmann et al., 2010).”