Urban brownfields as temporary habitats: driving forces for the diversity of phytophagous insects

• Published in: Ecography (Copenhagen) Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 928 - 940
• Main Author: Strauss and Robert Biedermann, Barbara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.12.2006
• Subjects: Auchenorrhyncha; brownfields; Cicadellidae; cities; Germany; grasshoppers; habitats; Hemiptera; insect communities; landscapes; Orthoptera; phytophagous insects; soil; species diversity; vegetation; vegetation structure; Germany, Berlin; Germany; Germany, Bremen

In urban brownfields (derelict sites), we studied the influence of local factors (successional age, vegetation structure, soil) and landscape context (spatial arrangement of brownfields of different successional stages) on the diversity of phytophagous insects, grasshoppers and leafhoppers (Orthopte...