Establishing new grasslands on crop fields: short-term development of plant and arthropod communities.

ABSTRACT: Establishment of semi-natural grasslands offers a valuable approach to the conservation of threatened grassland biodiversity. We established new grassland strips on former crop fields adjacent to old semi-natural grasslands and monitored the development of plant, carabid, spider, and wild bee communities over 3 years. The studied plant and arthropods communities were significantly different between newly established grassland strips and old grassland. Our results suggest that restoring plant and arthropod communities takes longer than 3 years to become similar to old semi-natural grasslands.

SUBMITTER: Hussain RI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9790339 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature