Limiting factors in the restoration of grassland insects

摘要: Summary Grasslands restoration is a key management tool contributing to the long-term maintenance of insect populations, providing functional connectivity and mitigating against extinction debt across landscapes. As knowledge grassland communities limited, lag between initiation ability these new habitats contribute successful enhancement native biodiversity unclear. Using two long term data sets from same experiment, we investigate differences in successional trajectories during establishment butterfly (11 years) phytophagous beetle (13 recreation calcareous grassland. Overall success was higher for butterflies than beetles. However, both shared general pattern rapidly increasing over first five years, which approached an asymptote after c . 10 years. The use pro-active mitigate future environmental change needs account such time lags if value be fully realised.