Grassland invertebrate assemblages in managed landscapes: Effect of host plant and microhabitat architecture

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 708-718

  Reid, Adele M ^a,b,c   Hochuli, Dieter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

Habitat heterogeneity; Invertebrate diversity; Managed grassland; Microhabitat architecture; Plant diversity; Species composition; Structural manipulation

Indexed keywords

FOLIAGE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HOST PLANT; INVERTEBRATE; LIVESTOCK; MICROHABITAT; PASTURE; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

BRYOPHYTA; CAREX; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; POACEAE;

EID: 34547664602     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01767.x     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Andrzejewska L. (1965) Stratification and its dynamics in meadow communities of Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera). Ekol. Pol. 13, 685 715.
2. Bell S. S., McCoy E. D. Mushinsky H. R. (1991) Habitat Structure: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space. Chapman & Hall, London, New York.
3. Benton T. G., Vickery J. A. Wilson J. D. (2003) Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key? Trends Ecol. Evol. 18, 182 8.
4. Borges P. A. V. Brown V. K. (2001) Phytophagous insects and web-building spiders in relation to pasture vegetation complexity. Ecography 24, 68 82.
5. Clarke K. R. Gorley R. N. (2001) primer v5: User Manual/Tutorial. Primer-E Ltd, Plymouth.
6. Clarke K. R. Green R. H. (1988) Statistical design and analysis for a 'biological effects' study. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 46, 213 26.
7. Clarke K. R. Warwick R. M. (1994) Change in Marine Communities: An Approach to Statistical Analysis and Interpretation. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth.
8. Crawley M. J. (1983) Herbivory: The Dynamics of Animal-Plant Interactions. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
9. Curry J. P. (1994) Grassland Invertebrates. Ecology, Influence on Soil Fertility and Effects on Plant Growth. Chapman & Hall, London, New York.
10. Dennis P., Thomas M. B. Sotherton N. W. (1994) Structural features of field boundaries which influence the overwintering densities of beneficial arthropod predators. J. Appl. Ecol. 31, 361 70.
11. Dennis P., Young M. R. Gordon I. J. (1998) Distribution and abundance of small insects and arachnids in relation to structural heterogeneity of grazed, indigenous grasslands. Ecol. Entomol. 23, 253 64.
12. Dennis P., Young M. R. Bentley C. (2001) The effects of varied grazing management on epigeal spiders, harvestmen and pseudoscorpions of Nardus stricta grasslands in upland Scotland. Agr. Ecosyst. Environ. 86, 39 57.
13. Denno R. F. (1994) Influence of habitat structure on the abundance and diversity of planthoppers. In: Planthoppers: Their Ecology and Management (eds R. F. Denno T. J. Perfect) pp. 140 59. Chapman & Hall, London, New York.
14. Denno R. F. Roderick G. F. (1991) Influence of patch size, vegetation structure and host plant architecture on the diversity, abundance and life history styles of sap-feeding herbivores. In: Habitat Structure: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space (eds S. S. Bell, E. D. McCoy H. R. Mushinsky) pp. 169 96. Chapman & Hall, London.
15. Dowling P. M., Michalk D. L., Kemp D. R. et al. (2006) Sustainable grazing systems for the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. 2. Effect of pasture type and grazing management on pasture productivity and composition. Aust. J. Exp. Agr. 46, 457 69.
16. Downes B. J., Lake P. S., Schreiber E. S. Glaister A. (2000) Habitat structure, resources and diversity: the separate effects of surface roughness and macroalgae on stream invertebrates. Oecologia 123, 569 81.
17. Grez A. A. Gonzalez R. H. (1995) Resource concentration hypothesis: effect of host plant patch size on density of herbivorous insects. Oecologia 103, 471 4.
18. Gingras D., Dutilleul P. Boivin G. (2002) Modelling the impact of plant structure on host finding behaviour of parasitoids. Oecologia 130, 396 402.
19. Hossain Z., Gurr G. M. Wratten S. D. (1999) Capture efficiency of insect natural enemies from tall and short vegetation using vacuum sampling. Ann. Appl. Biol. 135, 463 7.
20. Hossain Z., Gurr G. M. Wratten S. D. (2000) The potential to manipulate the numbers of insects in lucerne by strip cutting. Aust. J. Entomol. 39, 39 41.
21. Hunter M. D. Price P. W. (1992) Playing chutes and ladders: heterogeneity and the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces in natural communities. Ecology 73, 724 32.
22. Ives A. R., Kareiva P. Perry R. (1993) Response of a predator to variation in prey density at three hierarchical scales: lady beetles feeding on aphids. Ecology 74, 1929 38.
23. Jenkins G. P., Walker-Smith G. K. Hamer P. A. (2002) Elements of habitat complexity that influence harpacticoid copepods associated with seagrass beds in a temperate bay. Oecologia 131, 598 605.
24. Koricheva J., Mulder C. P. H., Schmid B., Joshi J. Huss-Danell K. (2000) Numerical responses of different trophic groups of invertebrates to manipulations of plant diversity in grasslands. Oecologia 125, 271 82.
25. Kotliar N. B. Wiens J. A. (1990) Multiple scales of patchiness and patch structure: a hierarchical framework for the study of heterogeneity. Oikos 59, 253 60.
26. Landis D. A., Wratten S. D. Gurr. G. M. (2000) Habitat management to conserve natural enemies of arthropod pests in agriculture. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 45, 175 201.
27. Lawrence J. F. Britton E. B. (1996) Coleoptera (beetles). In: The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers. C.S.I.R.O. Division of Entomology pp. 543 683. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
28. Lawton J. H. (1983) Plant architecture and the diversity of phytophagous insects. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28, 23 39.
29. Lee J. C., Menalled F. D. Landis D. A. (2001) Refuge habitats modify impact of insecticide disturbance on carabid beetle communities. J. Appl. Ecol. 38, 472 83.
30. Luff M. L. (1966) The abundance and diversity of the beetle fauna of grass tussocks. J. Anim. Ecol. 35, 189 208.
31. MacLeod A., Wratten S. D., Sotherton N. W. Thomas M. B. (2004) 'Beetle banks' as refuges for beneficial arthropods in farmland: long-term changes in predator communities and habitat. Agr. For. Entomol. 6, 147 54.
32. McNett B. J. Rypstra A. L. (2000) Habitat selection in a large orb-weaving spider: vegetational complexity determines site selection and distribution. Ecol. Entomol. 25, 423 32.
33. Marriott N. Marriott J. (1998) Grassland Plants of South-Eastern Australia. Bloomings Books, Hawthorn.
34. Melbourne B. A. (1999) Bias in the effect of habitat structure on pitfall traps: an experimental evaluation. Aust. J. Ecol. 24, 228 39.
35. Michalk D. I., Dowling P. M., Kemp D. R. et al. (2003) Sustainable grazing systems for the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Aust. J. Exp. Agr. 43, 861 74.
36. Morris M. G. (1974) Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) of the Burren, with special reference to species associations of the grasslands. Proc. R. Irish Acad. B 74, 7 30.
37. Morris M. G. (1981a) Responses of grassland invertebrates to management by cutting III. Adverse effects on Auchenorrhyncha. J. Appl. Ecol. 18, 107 23.
38. Morris M. G. (1981b) Responses of grassland invertebrates to management by cutting IV. Positive responses of Auchenorrhyncha. J. Appl. Ecol. 18, 763 71.
39. Morris M. G. (2000) The effects of structure and its dynamics on the ecology and conservation of arthropods in British grasslands. Biol. Conserv. 95, 129 42.
40. Morris M. G. Rispin W. E. (1987) Abundance and diversity of the coleopterous fauna of a calcareous grassland under different cutting regimes. J. Appl. Ecol. 24, 451 65.
41. Mound L. A. Heming B. S. (1996) Thysanoptera (thrips). In: The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers. C.S.I.R.O. Division of Entomology pp. 510 15. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
42. Murdoch W. M., Evans F. C. Peterson C. H. (1972) Diversity and pattern in plants and insects. Ecology 53, 819 29.
43. Naumann I. D. (1996) Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, sawflies and ants). In: The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers. C.S.I.R.O. Division of Entomology pp. 916 1000. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
44. New T. R. (1998) Invertebrate Surveys for Conservation. Oxford University Press Oxford, New York.
45. Oliver I. Beattie A. J. (1996) Invertebrate morphospecies as surrogates for species: a case study. Conserv. Biol. 10, 99 109.
46. Pik A. J., Oliver I. Beattie A. J. (1999) Taxonomic sufficiency in ecological studies of terrestrial invertebrates. Aust. J. Ecol. 24, 555 62.
47. Price P. W., Bouton C. E., Gross P., McPheron B. A., Thompson J. N. Weis A. E. (1980) Interactions among three trophic levels: influence of plants on interactions between insect herbivores and natural enemies. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 11, 41 65.
48. Quicke D. L. J. (1997) Parasitic Wasps. Chapman & Hall, London.
49. Reid A. M. (2004) Effect of fertiliser and grazing on grassland invertebrates (PhD Dissertation). The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
50. Root R. B. (1973) Organisation of a plant-arthropod association in simple and diverse habitats: the fauna of collards (Brassica oleracea). Ecol. Monogr. 43, 95 124.
51. Rosenzweig M. L. (1995) Species Diversity in Space and Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
52. Shattuck S. O. (1999) Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. C.S.I.R.O. Publishing, Collingwood.
53. Shea K., Sheppard A., Morton R. Chalimbaud J. (2000) Effect of patch size and plant density of Paterson's curse (Echium plantagineum) on the oviposition of a specialist weevil, Mogulones larvatus. Oecologia 124, 615 21.
54. Siemann E. (1998) Experimental tests of effects of plant productivity and diversity on grassland arthropod diversity. Ecology 79, 2057 70.
55. Sokal R. R. Rohlf F. J. (1995) Biometry: The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research. W H Freeman, New York.
56. Southwood T. R. E., Brown V. K. Reader P. M. (1979) The relationship of plant and insect diversities in succession. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 12, 327 48.
57. Southwood T. R. E. Henderson P. A. (2000) Ecological Methods, 3rd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
58. Speight M. R., Hunter M. D. Watt A. D. (1999) Ecology of Insects: Concepts and Applications. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
59. Tallamy D. W. Denno R. F. (1979) Responses of sap-feeding insects (Homoptera: Hemiptera) to simplification of host plant structure. Environ. Entomol. 8, 1021 8.
60. Thomas C. F. G. Jepson P. C. (1997) Field-scale effects of farming practices on linyphiid spider populations in grass and cereals. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 84, 59 69.
61. Thomas C. F. G., Parkinson L., Griffiths G. J. K., Fernandez Garcia A. Marshall E. J. P. (2001) Aggregation and temporal stability of carabid beetle distributions in field and hedgerow habitats. J. Appl. Ecol. 38, 100 16.
62. Thomas M. B., Wratten S. D. Sotherton N. W. (1992) Creation of island habitats in farmland to manipulate populations of beneficial arthropods: predator densities and species composition. J. Appl. Ecol. 29, 524 31.
63. Thompson P. (1978) The oviposition sites of five leafhopper species (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) on Holcus mollis and H. lanatus. Ecol. Entomol. 3, 231 40.
64. Thorpe K. W. (1985) Effect of height and habitat type on egg parasitism by Trichogramma minutum and T. pretiosum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Agr. Ecosyst. Environ. 12, 117 26.
65. Tilman D. (1986) A consumer-resource approach to community structure. Am. Zool. 26, 5 22.
66. Uetz G. W. (1991) Habitat structure and spider foraging. In: Habitat Sturcture: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space (eds S. S. Bell, E. D. McCoy & H. R. Mushinsky) pp. 325 48. Chapman & Hall, London, New York.
67. Underwood A. J. (1997) Experiments in Ecology: Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York.
68. Usher M. B. (1978) The structure of, and processes in, grassland animal communities: an introduction. Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. A 6, 121 30.
69. Zabel J. Tscharntke T. (1998) Does fragmentation of Urtica habitats affect phytophagous and predatory insects differentially? Oecologia 116, 419 25.