Using stone cover patches and grazing exclusion to restore ground-active beetle communities in a degraded pseudo-steppe

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 561-572

  Blight, Olivier ^a   Fadda, Sylvain ^a   Orgeas, Jerôme ^a   Ponel, Philippe ^a   Buisson, Elise ^b   Dutoit, Thierry ^b  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Beetle species richness; Mediterranean pseudo steppe restoration; Sheep grazing

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GRAZING; PATCHINESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHEEP; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE;

FRANCE;

COLEOPTERA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79960094998     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-010-9358-3     Document Type: Article

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