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Local and global factors in organization of Central-European orthopteran assemblages

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Our case study revealed that organization of the studied local assemblages is dominated by mechanisms uniform globally, from which in Central-Europe (1) vegetation height, (2) overall vegetation cover, (3) cover of the dicotyledonous and mesophilous monocotyledonous species, (4) microclimate, (5) annual rainfall and (6) insolation in April have main importance. Life-form- and ecotype-structure of the assemblages in habitats characterized by similar vegetation-structure and microclimate seem to be conservative at Eurasian scale, but species-composition of the local variants is determined by individual effects of zoogeography, landscape structure, landuse and habitat-history.

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Kenyeres, Z., Bauer, N. & Rácz, I.A. Local and global factors in organization of Central-European orthopteran assemblages. Russ J Ecol 45, 375–383 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413614050075

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