Contrasting success in the restoration of plant and phytophagous beetle assemblages of species-rich mesotrophic grasslands

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 773-783

  Woodcock, B A ^a   Edwards, A R ^a   Lawson, C S ^a   Westbury, D B ^a   Brook, A J ^a   Harris, S J ^a   Brown, V K ^a   Mortimer, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Cynosurus Centaurea; Grassland restoration; Hay meadow; Resistance; Successional trajectories

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; POACEAE; SEEDS; SOIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CENTAUREA; COLEOPTERA; CYNOSURUS;

EID: 36849082099     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0872-2     Document Type: Article

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