One central challenge for humanity is to mitigate and adapt to an ongoing climate and
biodiversity crisis while providing resources to a growing human population. Ecological …

Pseudo-alpine grassland ecosystems have started to decline during the past few decades.
According to many studies, climate change and abandonment of traditional anthropogenic …

Ecosystem services (ESs) can be defined as the values and benefits provided by
ecosystems for human well-being. The main characteristic of ESs is that they benefit people …

Livestock grazing abandonment entails important shifts on the overall ecosystem function,
but the effects of this land-use change on specific bacterial taxa remain poorly understood in …

Background Mulching and burnt wood treatments are commonly applied to prevent the loss
of soil quality and erosion, but their effect on soil multifunctionality remains unexplored. Aims …

Biodiversity loss by grazing pressure has threatened multiple ecosystem functions
simultaneously (ecosystem multifunctionality, EMF) in grasslands. Therefore, detecting the …

Introduction Shrubs have expanded into grasslands globally. However, the relative
importance of aboveground and underground diversity and the relative importance of …

Grassland soils, beyond their role as biodiversity reservoirs, actively contribute to the
provision of numerous ecosystem services. In the Iberian Peninsula, drove roads, the …

In Southern Europe, the abandonment of the traditional transhumant system where sheep
graze lowland areas during winter and distant mountain systems during summer has led to …

Methods We conducted a three-year (2018–2020) in-situ experiment under four grazing
intensities: no grazing, light grazing, moderate grazing, and heavy grazing. Plant community …