Abstract The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), being one of the
strongest drivers of agricultural land-use practices, has a substantial impact on biodiversity …

Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …

Promoting and increasing the uptake of sustainable agricultural practices poses a major
challenge for European agricultural policy. The scientific evidence for potentially relevant …

Forests are specifically relevant for biodiversity and provide a wide range of ecosystem
services. However, Europe's forests and their services are threatened. Temperate, boreal …

Grasslands are spontaneously occurring herbaceous vegetation types that are mostly
dominated by grasses or other graminoids and have usually> 10% herb-layer cover, while …

Forest cover in the Rherhaya watershed of the Moroccan High Atlas region, characterized by
its critical natural conditions, faces strong human pressure, leading to the fragmentation of …

Expanding and managing current habitat and species protection measures is at the heart of
the European biodiversity strategy. A structured approach is needed to gain insights into …

Weeds are considered serious and troublesome pests for crops, and their management had
always been at the core of plant protection (Oerke, 2006; Travlos et al., 2021). Despite the …

In Switzerland, steppe vegetation is restricted to inner alpine dry valleys in the West (Valais)
and the East (Grisons). They harbour many specialist and threatened species. In 2011, a …

Aims Resurveys of vegetation plots are prone to several errors that can result in misleading
conclusions. Minimizing such errors and finding alternative approaches for analyzing …