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Pastoral Practices to Reverse Shrub Encroachment of Sub-Alpine Grasslands: Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) Respond More Quickly Than Vegetation

In recent decades, pastoral abandonment has produced profound ecological changes in the Alps. In particular, the reduction in grazing has led to extensive shrub encroachment of semi-natural grasslands, which may represent a threat to open habitat biodiversity. To reverse shrub encroachment, we asses...

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Autores principales: Tocco, Claudia, Probo, Massimiliano, Lonati, Michele, Lombardi, Giampiero, Negro, Matteo, Nervo, Beatrice, Rolando, Antonio, Palestrini, Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24358277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083344