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Hemiptera community and species responses to grassland sward islets

Helden, Alvin J.; Dittrich, Alex D. K.;
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  • Published: 19 Mar 2016
  • Country: United Kingdom
Abstract
Sward islet is a term that has been used to describe a patch of longer vegetation in a pasture produced by a reduction in cattle grazing around their dung. They are known to affect the abundance and distribution of grassland arthropods. Hemiptera, like other groups, are found in higher densities within islets than the surrounding sward. Does this modify the community composition or is there just a density effect? Evidence from a paired (islets, non-islets) study at an Irish cattle-grazed site, would suggest that although a change in the density of species explains much of the patterns observed, some species respond to islets in different ways. Grassland Auchenor...
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