Establishing new grasslands on crop fields: short-term development of plant and arthropod communities

Raja I. Hussain; Manuela Brandl; Bea Maas; Bernhard Krautzer; Thomas Frank; Dietmar Moser

doi:10.1111/rec.13641

Establishing new grasslands on crop fields: short-term development of plant and arthropod communities

Raja I. Hussain, Manuela Brandl, Bea Maas, Bernhard Krautzer, Thomas Frank, Dietmar Moser

Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research

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Establishment of semi-natural grasslands offers a valuable approach to the conservation of threatened grassland biodiversity. We established new grassland strips on former crop fields adjacent to old semi-natural grasslands and monitored the development of plant, carabid, spider, and wild bee communities over 3 years. The studied plant and arthropods communities were significantly different between newly established grassland strips and old grassland. Our results suggest that restoring plant and arthropod communities takes longer than 3 years to become similar to old semi-natural grasslands.

Original language	English
Article number	e13641
Number of pages	5
Journal	Restoration Ecology
Volume	30
Issue number	8
Early online date	3 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13641
Publication status	Published - Nov 2022

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

106047 Animal ecology
106030 Plant ecology
604018 Conservation, restoration

Keywords

arthropod diversity
new grassland strips
plant communities
restoration measures
seed mixtures
semi-natural grassland
SPECIES-DIVERSITY
RESOURCES
AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES
ASSEMBLAGES
FORESTS
CONSERVATION
VEGETATION

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Establishing new grasslands on crop fields: short-term development of plant and arthropod communities

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