Figure 1.

The nine experimental treatments shown across two axes of variation; height (H1, H2, H3) and diversity (D1, D2, D3), with example photographs taken in early summer of the second year after establishment. Diversity treatments differed in total species richness and relative proportion of forb and grass. Height treatments differed in mowing regimes as well as plant selection. Details of the nine seed mixes are in Appendix S1: Table S2. At each site, an area of the original mown amenity grassland equal in area to the treatment plots but without special management (the unmanipulated control plot) was also surveyed.