Ground beetles and weevils (Carabidae and Curculionoidea) as indicators of grassland management practices

The ground beetle and weevil communities on thirty grassland sites differing in intensity of management were sampled using pitfall traps in north‐east England. The beetle communities were analysed using classification (TWINSPAN) and ordination (DECORANA) and, together with measured environmental variables, canonical correlation analysis (CANOCO). Classification and ordination of the ground beetle data indicated that management was the most...