A decrease in habitat amount and connectivity causes immediate or delayed species
extinctions in transformed landscapes due to reduced functional connections among …

The theory of island biogeography postulates that size and isolation are key drivers of
biodiversity on islands. This theory has been applied not only to true (eg oceanic) islands …

Environmental heterogeneity shapes the patterns of resources and limiting factors and
therefore can be an important driver of plant community composition through the selection of …

Aims Aeolian islands form an active volcanic archipelago. By using updated vascular plant
checklists for islands and islets, we tested four hypotheses:(i) Island species–area …

Civilizations, including ancient ones, have shaped global ecosystems in many ways through
coevolution of landscapes and humans. However, the cultural legacies of ancient and lost …

This work represents the first study of the floristic diversity on Bulgaria's ancient mounds. The
objective of this research was to assess the importance of the mounds for the preservation of …

Loess vegetations of the Carpathian Basin have been ploughed for a thousand years.
Therefore, loess steppes of verges of the Transdanubia have nearly disappeared. Therefore …

Place names are an important but vanishing part of cultural diversity, and their relevance for
environmental sciences is increasingly acknowledged. Still little is known about whether the …

Widespread campaigns on forest restoration and various tree planting actions lower the
awareness of the importance of grasslands for carbon sequestration and biodiversity …

Fragmented natural habitats within human-transformed landscapes play a key role in
preserving biodiversity. Ants as keystone species are essential elements of terrestrial …