Widespread degradation of natural lands has created an urgent need for restoration.
However, the high cost of conventional techniques limits the extent and success of …

Urbanization is one of the most severe threats to biodiversity, so why should not we use
green space in cities to counteract the biodiversity loss as much as possible? Urban …

Effective restoration of meadows requires seeds of local provenance to preserve not only the
species diversity but also the genetic identity of plant communities. We compared three …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are nonmaterial benefits that people obtain from
ecosystems. The CES subcategories cover a wide range of domains (eg recreation …

Dry grasslands in the Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve of the White
Carpathian Mts. in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, central Europe, belong to the …

Grasslands across the globe are undergoing expansive degradation due to human impacts
and climate change. If restoration of degraded native grassland is to be achieved at the …

The area of arable land has decreased considerably in Europe over the last decades.
Abandoned fields are potential habitats for restoration of species-rich grasslands of high …

During the past two decades restoration ecology has emerged as a relatively new discipline
in applied ecological research aiming to counteract the worldwide degradation of …

Questions The restoration of unused urban‐industrial areas has largely been neglected
despite their great potential for nature conservation purposes. We applied three plant …

Most semi‐natural grasslands are threatened by invasive alien plants, which have also
overgrown abandoned fields. We conducted a 6‐year experiment testing different methods …