caa a22 4500 605526788 CHVBK 20210128100805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-015-0892-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-015-0892-x Different patterns in species richness and community composition between trees, plants and epiphytic lichens in semi-natural pastures under agri-environment schemes [Elektronische Daten] [Alexandro Caruso, Erik Öckinger, Camilla Winqvist, Johan Ahnström] Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been established to counteract negative effects of agricultural intensification on e.g. semi-natural pastures and meadows. The efficiency of most AESs have, however, been poorly evaluated. We evaluated the success of a Swedish AES for the management of semi-natural pastures by comparing species richness and composition of vascular plants (except trees), epiphytic lichens and trees among pastures receiving higher (high value pastures) and lower levels of AES paymens (general value pastures). There was no difference in the number of tree species among high and general value pastures, even though AES regulations allow a maximum of 60 and 100 trees/ha in general and high value pastures, respectively. High value pastures had, however, a higher number of plant and epiphytic lichen species than common value pastures. Moreover, a higher number of pasture specialist plant species were indicative of high value pastures than of general value pastures. No lichen species indicating high value pastures are associated with habitats with low canopy cover (such as e.g. pastures). Finally, tree identity was an important factor for explaining the number and composition of epiphytic lichen species. Our study highlights that species groups can respond differently to agri-environment schemes and other conservation measures. Even though the effects are the desired on the diversity of one assessed taxon, this is not always the case for non-target organism groups. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Agricultural intensification nationallicence Biodiversity nationallicence Conservation nationallicence Grassland nationallicence Tree density nationallicence Caruso Alexandro Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut Öckinger Erik Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut Winqvist Camilla Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut Ahnström Johan Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/7(2015-07-01), 1729-1742 0960-3115 24:7<1729 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0892-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0892-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Caruso Alexandro Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Öckinger Erik Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Winqvist Camilla Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ahnström Johan Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/7(2015-07-01), 1729-1742 0960-3115 24:7<1729 2015 24 10531