Vascular plants as surrogates of butterfly and grasshopper diversity on two Swiss subalpine summer pastures

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 1451-1465

  Koch, Bärbel ^a,b   Edwards, Peter J ^b   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^c   Buholzer, Serge ^a   Walter, Thomas ^a   Wüest, Rafael O ^d   Hofer, Gabriela ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Community similarity; Plants; Species richness; Summer pastures; Surrogate taxa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CAELIFERA; INVERTEBRATA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84878642780     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0485-5     Document Type: Article

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