Livestock trampling reduces the conservation value of beetle communities on high quality exposed riverine sediments

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1491-1509

  Bates, Adam J ^a   Sadler, Jon P ^a   Fowles, Adrian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afon Tywi; Carabidae; Disturbance; Grazing; Indicator species; Partial canonical correspondence analysis; Rarity; Riparian; Species diversity; Staphylinidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LIVESTOCK; POPULATION DENSITY; RARE SPECIES; RARITY; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCKING DENSITY; TRAMPLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; TYWI RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOS; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; OVIS ARIES; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 34250887101     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9028-7     Document Type: Article

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