Livestock trampling reduces the conservation value of beetle communities on high quality exposed riverine sediments

Adam Bates, Jonathan Sadler, AP Fowles

Research output: Contribution to journalArticle

26 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Exposed riverine sediments (ERS) are habitat for a large number of rare and threatened specialist species of invertebrates and are of considerable conservation importance. Livestock trampling is believed to be one of the most widespread causes of damage to ERS habitats in the UK, and as such, its effects were the focus of this investigation. Beetle density was measured at two points within 25 distinct patches of habitat along similar to 47 km of the Afon Tywi special site of scientific interest in South Wales, which is known to support an extremely good quality ERS beetle fauna in a UK context. Partial canonical correspondence analyses were used to explore the relationship between beetle assemblage and a range of environmental variables. The percentage of fine (
Original languageEnglish
JournalBiodiversity and Conservation
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2006

Keywords

  • Afon Tywi
  • disturbance
  • grazing
  • carabidae
  • indicator species
  • riparian
  • rarity
  • partial canonical correspondence analysis
  • species diversity
  • staphylinidae

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Livestock trampling reduces the conservation value of beetle communities on high quality exposed riverine sediments'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this