Context Current diversity and species composition of ecological communities can often not
exclusively be explained by present land use and landscape structure. Historical land use …

Monitoring semi-natural grasslands is difficult and costly because they occur in highly
dynamic and extremely complex habitat mosaics. We combined the use of a low-cost …

Land-use changes resulted in a decline of biodiversity in recent European agricultural
landscapes. Nevertheless, regions practicing sustained low-input farming continue to harbor …

Due to various human activities, including intensive agriculture, traffic, and the burning of
fossil fuels, in many parts of the world, current levels of reactive nitrogen emissions strongly …

The inner-alpine dry valleys of the Swiss Alps are characterized by subcontinental climate,
leading to many peculiarities in dry grassland species composition. Despite their well-known …

Abstract Species-area relationships (SARs), also known as species-area curves, are
fundamental scaling tools for biodiversity research. Sampling design and taxonomic groups …

Abstract Questions Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental for understanding
biodiversity patterns and are generally well described by a power law with a constant …

Spatial autocorrelation describes the interdependent relationship between the realizations
or observations of a variable that is distributed across a geographical landscape, which may …

Abstract Aims The introduction of Robinia pseudoacacia (RP) has some effects on
undergrowth herbaceous plants (UH), soil properties and their relationships, which may be …

Aims Developing a hierarchical classification system for classes, orders and alliances of the
diverse dry grasslands of the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula and translating this into …