This article introduces a Special Issue on biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands and
provides a synthesis of the current knowledge on this topic. Four major categories of …

Understanding how reclamation practices influence plant community assembly and
succession is an important step in developing realistic indicators and targets for reclamation …

Alkali landscapes hold an extremely fine-scale mosaic of several vegetation types, thus it
seems challenging to separate these classes by remote sensing. Our aim was to test the …

Close-to-nature restoration of mining areas is becoming widely recognized for its promotion
of ecosystem resilience and risk mitigation of biodiversity losses. Soil seed banks can serve …

There are contrasting opinions on the use of prescribed burning management in European
grasslands. On the one hand, prescribed burning can be effectively used for the …

Vertical position is an important driver of vegetation zonation at multiple scales, via
determining abiotic environmental parameters, such as climate, soil properties and water …

Along an urbanization gradient, we explored the soil metal pollution in Vienna, Austria. We
analyzed the physical and chemical parameters of topsoil from urban, suburban, and rural …

Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America: Ecology, Life History, and Systematics brings
together a wealth of information on the natural history, ecology, and systematics of North …

It is a truism in ecology that environmental heterogeneity increases diversity. Supporting
field studies are mostly concerned with a large-scale topographic heterogeneity, ranging …

Context Landscape and habitat filters are major drivers of biodiversity of small habitat
islands by influencing dispersal and extinction events in plant metapopulations. Objectives …