Grazing intensity and the diversity of grasshoppers, butterflies, and trap-nesting bees and wasps

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1570-1580

  Kruess, Andreas ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; SPHECIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036899552     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01334.x     Document Type: Article

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