Novel margin management to enhance Auchenorrhyncha biodiversity in intensive grasslands

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 140, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 506-513

  Blake, R J ^a   Woodcock, B A ^b   Ramsay, A J ^c   Pilgrim, E S ^d   Brown, V K ^a   Tallowin, J R ^d   Potts, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Calls Wharf   (United Kingdom)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Field margins; Leafhoppers; Planthoppers

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; FIELD MARGIN; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INSECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ENGLAND; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; AUCHENORRHYNCHA; BOS; CICADELLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952361143     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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