Orthopteran Diversity in Steep Slope Vineyards: The Role of Vineyard Type and Vegetation Management.

ABSTRACT: The abandonment of traditional agricultural practices and subsequent succession are major threats to many open-adapted species and species-rich ecosystems. Viticulture on steep slopes has recently suffered from strong declines due to insufficient profitability, thus increasing the area of fallow land considerably. Changing cultivation systems from vertically oriented to modern vineyard terraces offers an opportunity to maintain management economically viable and thus reduces further abandonment. Hillside parallel terraces favor mechanization, and their embankments offer large undisturbed areas that could provide valuable habitats. We investigated the effects of vineyard abandonment, different vineyard management types (vertically oriented vs. terraced), and local parameters on Orthoptera d

SUBMITTER: Wersebeckmann V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9867116 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature