Grazing management in saltmarsh ecosystems drives invertebrate diversity, abundance and functional group structure

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-200

  Ford, Hilary ^a,b   Garbutt, Angus ^a   Jones, Laurence ^a   Jones, Davey L ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Araneae; Biodiversity; Body size; Coleoptera; Food web; Grasslands; Hemiptera; Insects; Prey capture method; Spiders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875232509     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00202.x     Document Type: Article

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