Abundance of arthropods as food for meadow bird chicks in response to short- and long-term soil wetting in Dutch dairy grasslands
Background Throughout the world, intensive dairy farming has resulted in grasslands almost devoid of arthropods and birds. Meadow birds appear to be especially vulnerable during the chick-rearing period. So far, studies have focused mainly on describing population declines, but solutions to effectively stop these trends on the short-term are lacking. In this study at a single farm, we experimentally manipulated soil moisture through occasional irrigation, to mitigate against early season drainage and create favorable conditions for the emergence of above-ground arthropods during the meadow bir... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | PeerJ ; volume 7, page e7401 ; ISSN 2167-8359 |
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Schlagwörter: | General Agricultural and Biological Sciences / General Biochemistry / Genetics and Molecular Biology / General Medicine / General Neuroscience |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26666365 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7401 |