Farm-level phytodiversity of dairy farms is related to within-farm diversity of grassland management types

Bijeenkomst: EGF2015
Auteur: Breitsameter L. and Isselstein J.
ISBN: 978-9090-289-61-8
Jaar van uitgifte: 2015
Producttype: Paper
We analysed 163 vegetation relevés from grassland plots of 24 conventional dairy farms in Lower Saxony, NW Germany. The sample covered farms with a different magnitude of the contribution of pasture to the roughage ration of the dairy cows: zero-grazing, grazing for 14 h d‑1. At each farm, the sward botanical composition of two plots per existing grassland management type was determined in one quadrat of 25 m2 per plot. Average plot-level species numbers was distinct among types of plot management (P