Sample name: Allgåu Alps

Reference: T. Kessler, A. Cierjacks, R. Ernst, and F. Dziock. 2012. Direct and indirect effects of ski run management on alpine Orthoptera. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:281-296 [ER 2145]

Habitat: montane grassland

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 3.0

MAP: 2000.0

Habitat comments: "extensively managed pastures grazed by cows in the summer months from June to mid-September"
climate data apply to the province
MAT 2 to 4º C

Life forms: orthopterans

Sites: 82

Sampling methods: quadrat,visual

Sample size: 571 individuals

Years: 2008

Seasons: summer

Sampling comments: "Within the three skiing areas, study plots were selected by stratified random sampling. As a first step, we divided the area into eight equally large altitudinal zones, ranging from 1,555 to 1,921 m a.s.l. with each zone covering 46 m in altitude. Subsequently, we randomly allocated 41 blocks in these predefined altitudinal strata. Each block included one study plot of 8 9 8 m located on a ski run and one control plot of the same size located outside the skiing slope in the adjacent grassland... Field work was carried out in August 2008... Within each study and control plot, we surveyed the Orthoptera for 12 min, at each of the four sides of the plots"

Sample number: 2136

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-24 17:55:17

Modified: 2016-07-24 07:55:17