In order to analyse the potential of an extensive mowing regime for influencing the biodiversity of insects on public urban grassland areas in a middle-sized town, we compared intensively mowed lawns (one mowing event per month) with meadows that were extensively mowed only twice a year. Over the entire field season, 335 true bug individuals of 49 species and 12 families were caught by using spoon nets and an insect aspirator. We established that the process of mowing on a regular monthly basis reduced heteropteran biodiversity about 50% per mowing event. Moreover, extensively mowed meadows showed significantly higher total species numbers and biodiversity indices. With respect to true bugs, lawns were characterised by the absence of typica...
Intensification of agricultural production and simplification of landscape structure have negatively...
Biodiversity of semi-natural grasslands depends on the management practices used. However, managemen...
For the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural grasslands, it is essential to understand how m...
In order to analyse the potential of an extensive mowing regime for influencing the biodiversity of ...
To analyse the effects of reduced green space management in urban areas on the biodiversity of insec...
We investigated the abundance and species richness of heteropteran bugs and explored environmental f...
Urban ecosystems are not unique, as the ecological processes and anthropological effects they encaps...
Urban ecosystems are not unique as the ecological processes and anthropological effects they encapsu...
Method, frequency and date of mowing influence the presence and population size of Orthoptera specie...
Species-rich grasslands are rare in the Netherlands and need consistent vegetation management to ret...
Insect diversity may be declining even more rapidly than in plants and vertebrates, particularly in ...
One of the major goals in nature conservation practice is to optimise the timing or the method of tr...
1. Biodiversity-rich grasslands have been severely impacted by agricultural intensification. Althou...
Anthropogenic land use is an established driver of biodiversity loss. The complexity and far-reachin...
International audienceIn regions where intensive farming is the dominant land use, urban areas are a...
Intensification of agricultural production and simplification of landscape structure have negatively...
Biodiversity of semi-natural grasslands depends on the management practices used. However, managemen...
For the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural grasslands, it is essential to understand how m...
In order to analyse the potential of an extensive mowing regime for influencing the biodiversity of ...
To analyse the effects of reduced green space management in urban areas on the biodiversity of insec...
We investigated the abundance and species richness of heteropteran bugs and explored environmental f...
Urban ecosystems are not unique, as the ecological processes and anthropological effects they encaps...
Urban ecosystems are not unique as the ecological processes and anthropological effects they encapsu...
Method, frequency and date of mowing influence the presence and population size of Orthoptera specie...
Species-rich grasslands are rare in the Netherlands and need consistent vegetation management to ret...
Insect diversity may be declining even more rapidly than in plants and vertebrates, particularly in ...
One of the major goals in nature conservation practice is to optimise the timing or the method of tr...
1. Biodiversity-rich grasslands have been severely impacted by agricultural intensification. Althou...
Anthropogenic land use is an established driver of biodiversity loss. The complexity and far-reachin...
International audienceIn regions where intensive farming is the dominant land use, urban areas are a...
Intensification of agricultural production and simplification of landscape structure have negatively...
Biodiversity of semi-natural grasslands depends on the management practices used. However, managemen...
For the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural grasslands, it is essential to understand how m...