Download or read book Plant - Invertebrate Interactions in Agriculturally Managed Grasslands Under Functional Group Manipulation written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the last few centuries the rapid growth of the human population, along with increasing economic development, has caused increasing demands for agricultural products such as food and fuel. This has led to an extension of agricultural areas, and the intensification of existing agricultural areas to maximize crop production, therewith increasing pressures on ecosystems around the world. Agricultural intensification, with high inputs of fertilizer and increasing cutting regimes, leads to a decline in plant species richness, lower stability to climatic extremes, such as drought or high ra...