The role of management and landscape context in the restoration of grassland phytophagous beetles

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 366-376

  Woodcock, Ben A ^a   Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N ^b   Westbury, Duncan B ^b   Lawson, Clare S ^b   Edwards, Andrew R ^b   Brook, Alex J ^c   Harris, Stephanie J ^b   Lock, Kerry A ^d   Maczey, Norbert ^c   Masters, Greg ^c   Brown, Valerie K ^b   Mortimer, Simon R ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c CABI   (United Kingdom)

^d Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcareous grasslands; Coleoptera; Dispersal limitation; Flight; Hay spreading; Host plant specialization; Mesotrophic

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; DISPERSAL; EUROPEAN UNION; FLIGHT; HAY; HOST PLANT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951164158     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01776.x     Document Type: Article

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