There is currently a growing concern that biocultural heritage is threatened in many
landscapes. This paper focuses on biological cultural heritage, broadly meaning biological …

Abstract In Swedish Lappland, large national parks and nature reserves include forests with
exceptional biodiversity values. While they are located in the ancient cultural landscapes of …

Combining nine tree growth proxies from four sites, from the west coast of Norway to the
Kola Peninsula of NW Russia, provides a well replicated (> 100 annual measurements per …

A landscape perspective is generally recognized as essential for conservation biology. The
main underlying reason is that species respond to features of the landscape at various …

Drainage to increase timber production is a major cause of degradation of boreal peatlands
in Europe. As a consequence of the forestry drainage, the area of pristine spruce swamp …

Abstract European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) forests in the Alps are cultural landscapes that
have been shaped by humans for centuries through traditional management. Biological and …

Human activities that involve land‐use change often cause major transformations to
community and ecosystem properties both aboveground and belowground, and when land …

Intact forest landscapes harbor significant biodiversity values and pools of ecosystem
services essential for conservation, land use and rural development. Threatened by …

Onshore wind power is increasingly expanding to meet global and national goals to
increase renewable, clean, and fossilfree energy production. In many countries and regions …

Hypotheses for explaining plant invasions have focused on a variety of factors that may
influence invasion success, including propagule pressure, interactions of the introduced …