Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1492-1501

  Manning, Pete ^a   Gossner, Martin M ^b,c   Bossdorf, Oliver ^a,d   Allan, Eric ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ye ^a   Prati, Daniel ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^e   Boch, Steffen ^a   Böhm, Stefan ^f   Börschig, Carmen ^g   Hölzel, Norbert ^h   Jung, Kirsten ^f   Klaus, Valentin H ^h   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^i,j   Kleinebecker, Till ^h   Krauss, Jochen ^k   Lange, Markus ^b,l   Müller, Jörg ^m   PAŠALIć, Esther ^b   Socher, Stephanie A ^a   Tschapka, Marco ^f   Türke, Manfred ^b,c   Weiner, Christiane ^k   Werner, Michael ^k   Gockel, Sonja ^c   Hemp, Andreas ⁿ   Renner, Swen C ^j,o   Wells, Konstans ^f,p   Buscot, François ^q,r,s   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^f   Linsenmair, Karl Eduard ^h   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^b,c   Fischer, Markus ^a,m,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

ⁱ LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^o SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^q HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^s GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Correlation; Fertilization; Grassland management; Grazing; Land use change; Land use intensity; Mowing; Multidiversity; Multitrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CORRELATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; INSECT; LAND USE CHANGE; MOWING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84930825715     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1307.1     Document Type: Article

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