Effects of grazing, vegetation structure and landscape complexity on grassland leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) and true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Hungary

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-66

  Korösi, Ádám ^a   Batáry, Péter ^b   Orosz, András ^a   Rédei, Dávid ^a   Báldi, András ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance; Cattle pastures; Community composition; Grazing intensity; Landscape structure; Semi natural grassland; Species richness; Sward height

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855752835     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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