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| van Klink, Roel; Menz, Myles H. M.; Baur, Hannes; Dosch, Oliver; Kühne, Isabel; Lischer, Lukas; Luka, Henryk; Meyer, Sandro; Szikora, Tomea; Unternährer, Debora; Arlettaz, Raphaël; Humbert, Jean-Yves. |
| For the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural grasslands, it is essential to understand how management acts as an ecological filter on the resident species. Mowing constitutes such a filter: only species that possess functional traits enabling them to withstand its consequences can persist in the community. We investigated how the timing of mowing modulates this filtering effect for insects. We predicted that two traits drive species responses. Species with larval development within the meadow vegetation will suffer more from mowing than species whose larvae develop in or on the ground, or outside the meadows, while species with a later phenology should benefit from later mowing. We conducted a five‐year experiment, replicated at 12 sites across the... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry; Biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/36417/1/Van_Klink_etal_2019-EcologicalApplications_Vol29-Issue4-pe01900.pdf |
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