Functional beetle diversity in managed grasslands: effects of region, landscape context and land use intensity

• Published in: Landscape ecology Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 529 - 540
• Main Authors: Liu, Yunhui, Rothenwöhrer, Christoph, Scherber, Christoph, Batáry, Péter, Elek, Zoltán, Steckel, Juliane, Erasmi, Stefan, Tscharntke, Teja, Westphal, Catrin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer-Verlag 01.03.2014; Springer Netherlands; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Biodiversity; Biological and medical sciences; Biological control; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Coleoptera; Ecology; Environmental changes; Environmental Management; Environmental policy; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Germany; Grasslands; Herbivores; Insecta; Insects; Invertebrates; issues and policy; Land use; Landscape Ecology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; landscapes; Life Sciences; Nature Conservation; Predators; Research Article; Species composition; species diversity; Sustainable Development; Synecology; Terrestrial ecosystems; Trophic levels; Germany; Multiple scales; Functional traits; Coleoptera; Functional groups; Landscape diversity; Grassland; Landscape; Functional trait; Insecta; Functional diversity; Land use; Arthropoda; Invertebrata; Functional group

Current biodiversity conservation policies have so far had limited success because they are mainly targeted to the scale of individual fields with little concern on different responses of organism groups at larger spatial scales. We investigated the relative impacts of multi-scale factors, including...