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Missing the target? A critical view on butterfly conservation efforts on calcareous grasslands in south-western Germany

verfasst von: Katharina J. Filz, Jan O. Engler, Johannes Stoffels, Matthias Weitzel, Thomas Schmitt

Erschienen in: Biodiversity and Conservation | Ausgabe 10/2013

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Butterflies are strongly declining on grassland habitats of Central Europe. Therefore, the success of conservation measures on high quality grassland habitats is controversially discussed. We compared the changes in butterfly diversity and community structure on six managed calcareous grasslands with eight unmanaged vineyard fallows. We obtained strong losses of species diversity and remarkable shifts of community compositions on both habitat types. However, the changes on vineyard fallows were only slightly more severe but more stochastic than on the calcareous grasslands. The shifts in community composition with respect to functional species traits were rather similar between the two different grassland types so that complex butterfly communities evolved into generalist-dominated ones. Connectivity was higher among vineyard fallows than among calcareous grasslands. Consequently, conservation measures on calcareous grasslands only partly achieved their goal to maintain the high species diversity and functional complexity still observed in the 1970s. The negative impacts of eutrophication and monotonisation of the landscape as well as climate change are affecting all habitats, independently from management concepts. Therefore, management on conservation sites can buffer against these effects, but is not sufficient for a full compensation.

Vorheriger Artikel Dry calcareous grasslands from two neighboring biogeographic regions: relationship between plant traits and rarity

Nächster Artikel Species diversity and life history traits in calcareous grasslands vary along an urbanization gradient

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Titel: Missing the target? A critical view on butterfly conservation efforts on calcareous grasslands in south-western Germany
verfasst von: Katharina J. Filz
Jan O. Engler
Johannes Stoffels
Matthias Weitzel
Thomas Schmitt
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Biodiversity and Conservation / Ausgabe 10/2013
Print ISSN: 0960-3115
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9710
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-012-0413-0

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