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Responses of Some Terrestrial Invertebrates to Catchment Treatments Applied at Loch Fleet |
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| Authors: | G N Foster M D Eyre M L Luff S P Rushton |
| Institution: | 1. SAC Auchincruive, Environmental Sciences Department , Ayr, KA6 5HW, Scotland, UK;2. Entomological Monitoring Services , 69 Mayfair Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 3DN, England , UK;3. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science , Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England , UK |
| Abstract: | The impact of liming and heather-burning on the beetle and spider faunas of open and afforested moorland was studied by use of pitfall traps. of the 168 species identified, the catch of only one species, the ground beetle Trechus obtusus Erichson, increased in a way that could be related to intervention treatments. No species obviously declined as a result of the intervention treatments. |
| Keywords: | Acidification liming moorland burning afforestation Carabidae Araneae pitfall traps multivariate analysis |