Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: A growing food demand and advanced agricultural techniques increasingly affect farmland ecosystems, threatening invertebrate populations with cascading effects along the food chain upon insectivorous vertebrates. Supporting farmland biodiversity thus optimally requires the delineation of species hotspots at multiple trophic levels to prioritize conservation management. The goal of this study was to investigate the links between grassland management intensity and orthopteran density at the field scale and to upscale this information to the landscape in order to guide management action at landscape scale. More specifically, we investigated the relationships between grassland management intensity, floral indicator species, and orthopteran abundance in grasslands with different land use in the

SUBMITTER: Klein N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713963 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature