Management effects on carabid beetles and spiders in Central Hungarian grasslands and cereal fields

Community Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 247-254

  Batary P ^a,b   Kovacs A ^c   Baldi A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Abundance; Fertiliser; Grazing; Landscape scale effects; Local scale effects; Species composition; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CEREAL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 57649112712     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.9.2008.2.14     Document Type: Article

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