Responses of plants, earthworms, spiders and bees to geographic location, agricultural management and surrounding landscape in European arable fields

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 186, Issue , 2014, Pages 124-134

  Lüscher, Gisela ^a,b   Jeanneret, Philippe ^a   Schneider, Manuel K ^a   Turnbull, Lindsay A ^c   Arndorfer, Michaela ^d   Balázs, Katalin ^e   Báldi, András ^f   Bailey, Debra ^a   Bernhardt, Karl G ^d   Choisis, Jean Philippe ^g   Elek, Zoltán ^h   Frank, Thomas ^d   Friedel, Jürgen K ^d   Kainz, Maximilian ⁱ   Kovács Hostyánszki, Anikó ^f   Oschatz, Marie Louise ^d   Paoletti, Maurizio G ^j   Papaja Hülsbergen, Susanne ⁱ   Sarthou, Jean Pierre ^g   Siebrecht, Norman ⁱ   Wolfrum, Sebastian ⁱ   Herzog, Felix ^a   more..

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f MTA ÖK Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group   (Hungary)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^h EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Abundance; BioBio; Partitioning of variation; Species composition; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARABLE LAND; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EARTHWORM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EUROPE;

EID: 84897609644     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.01.020     Document Type: Article

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