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Biodiversity in intensive grasslands: Effect of management, improvement and challenges / Sylvain Plantureux (2005)

Public Citation est un extrait de Integrating Efficient Grassland Farming and Biodiversity / R. Lillak (2005)  Titre : Biodiversity in intensive grasslands: Effect of management, improvement and challenges Type de document : Extrait d'ouvrage Auteurs : Sylvain Plantureux ; Alain Peeters ; David Mccracken Année de publication : 2005 Importance : p. 417-426 Résumé : Intensified grasslands are usually the dominant type of grassland in many countries in Europe but are generally of poor ecological value. Several management factors may affect biodiversity of these grasslands including fertilisation, grazing and cutting management. Their effects on grassland biodiversity are described in this paper. In most cases, intensive and profitable grass production from semi-natural grasslands appears to be incompatible with maintaining a high level of biodiversity. Two key questions then arise: how to restore biodiversity in intensive grasslands while limiting the technical and economical consequences? How to choose the target species on an objective basis? Some solutions are considered in the paper but it is suggested that 1) new tools (i.e. indicators) are required to evaluate the functions of biodiversity and to achieve biodiversity restoration goals and 2) in the short-term the research priority is to understand and predict biodiversity at the field and farm-scale. Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=147271 Plantureux, Sylvain, Peeters, Alain, Mccracken, David 2005 Biodiversity in intensive grasslands: Effect of management, improvement and challenges. In: Integrating Efficient Grassland Farming and Biodiversity. European Grassland Federation, [S.l.]: 417-426.