The spatial arrangements of plants, both within and between species, play a key role in
natural systems and influence many fundamental ecological processes (eg survival …

Regeneration of seminatural grasslands are often threatened by the invasion of
Calamagrostis epigejos, which can slow down or arrest secondary succession. Here we …

Questions Which environmental factors influence fine‐grain beta diversity of vegetation and
do they vary among taxonomic groups? Location Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods …

Context The role of landscape diversity and structure is crucial for maintaining biodiversity.
Both landscape diversity and structure have often been analysed on one thematic layer …

1Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, Centre for Agricultural Research,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences; H-1022 Budapest, Herman Ottó út 15., e-mail: cseresnyes …

We investigated fine-scale patterns of trait-based community assembly in calcareous
grasslands of the Central Apennines, Italy. We used the habitat template of environmentally …

We studied the vegetation of 54 sandy old-fields abandoned at different times. We first
surveyed the vegetation in 1998 and developed predictions about the spontaneous …

Traditional land-use cessation allows the spread of invasive tall-grass species and thus
leads to a reduction in grassland biodiversity. We hypothesized that long-term multi-year …

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This study investigates how yellow bluestem affects biodiversity in a typical Pannonian
grassland. Beta diversity (ie the finescale spatial variability of species compositions), was …