Agricultural abandonment reflects a post war trend in western Europe of rural depopulation
to which isolated and poorer areas are most vulnerable. The commercialisation of …

Farmland abandonment is a major problem in parts of Europe, particularly in mountain
areas and semiarid environments. In such places, farmland abandonment represents a …

In this study the impact of land use changes on vegetation in the sub‐alpine‐alpine belt is
analysed. The study sites (4.7 km2) are located in the Passeier Valley (South Tyrol, Italy), at …

Understanding and forecasting changes in plant communities, ecosystem properties, and
their associated services requires a mechanistic link between community shifts and …

In many environmental valuation applications standard sample sizes for choice modelling
surveys are impractical to achieve. One can improve data quality using more in‐depth …

Resumen Large Scale Grazing Systems (LSGS) are much more than large expanses of
seminatural vegetation. LSGS are complex structures emerging from the interaction of …

Human activities are changing the Planet, inducing high rates of extinction and a worldwide
depletion of biological diversity at genetic, species, and ecosystem level. Biodiversity not …

There has been an increasing use of predictive spatial distribution of main communities or
dominant species at the landscape scale for ecological restoration planning, biodiversity …

There is a widespread assumption that associates the rural with the unchanged and
unchangeable. However, what constitutes 'the rural'is under constant transformation. In rural …

This paper aims at understanding the effect that shrub encroachment into mesic mountain
grasslands has on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. Thus we compared organic C and N …