Healthy soils form the basis of sustainable viticulture, where soil characteristics have a direct
impact on wine quantity and quality. Soil not only provides water and nutrients to vines, but …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

The pteridophytes present a great but poorly explored potential as ecological indicators
(EIs), shown only in some sparse studies. Therefore, to analyze this potential, we reviewed …

Abstract Agri‐Environmental Schemes (AES) have been proposed to mitigate the impact of
agriculture on both taxonomic and functional biodiversity. However, a better knowledge of …

The wine industry is definitely committed in sustainability: the stakeholders' interest for the
topic is constantly growing and a wide number of sustainability programs have been …

Vineyards are likely to be regionally important for wildlife, but we lack biodiversity studies in
this agroecosystem which is undergoing a rapid management revolution. As vine cultivation …

Vineyards are intensively managed monocultures, constituting homogeneously cultivated
landscapes. They often have a mineral appearance, not only because they occur mostly in …

Functional diversity is increasingly pointed as a useful approach to reach Biological
Conservation goals. Here, we provide an overview of the functional diversity approach …

Abstract The most important Grapevine Yellows (GY) phytoplasma diseases in Europe are
Flavescence dorée (FD) and Bois noir (BN); they are spread in vineyard by two proven …

Species assemblages are the results of various processes, including dispersion and habitat
filtering. Disentangling the effects of these different processes is challenging for statistical …