Past cultivation is a factor driving organization of dry grassland ground-active beetle communities

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 132-139

  Fadda, Sylvain ^a   Orgeas, Jerome ^a   Ponel, Philippe ^a   Buisson, Elise ^a,b   Torre, Franck ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Brachypodium grasses; Coleoptera; Disturbance; Grazing pressure; Ruderal vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; BRACHYPODIUM GRASSES; GRASSLAND; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECTS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NUTRITION;

VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PITFALL TRAP; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATED SPECIES; DESERT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PREY; SHEEP; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRACHYPODIUM; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; OVIS ARIES; POACEAE;

EID: 34447542088     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892907003839     Document Type: Article

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