This article introduces a Special Issue on biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands and
provides a synthesis of the current knowledge on this topic. Four major categories of …

Both agricultural intensification and abandonment have led to the loss of European semi-
natural grasslands. Nature conservation management measures like mowing are essential …

In biodiversity conservation of agriculture‐driven landscapes, grasslands have an
outstanding importance; their conservation became a top priority both in research and …

Alkali landscapes hold an extremely fine-scale mosaic of several vegetation types, thus it
seems challenging to separate these classes by remote sensing. Our aim was to test the …

Disturbance by biomass removal is a crucial mechanism maintaining the diversity of
Palaearctic grasslands, which are unique biodiversity hotspots. The century-long traditional …

In the Palaearctic steppe zone, overgrazing was identified as one of the key drivers of
declining grassland biodiversity, which underlines the necessity of the functional evaluation …

Grazing exclusion is widely used to restore the grasslands that degraded by overgrazing.
However, it is not clear how the interaction of above-and below-ground functioning affects …

Livestock grazing is one of the most common management practices for grasslands and can
greatly affect their biodiversity. However, arthropod diversity response patterns to grazing …

There are contrasting opinions on the use of prescribed burning management in European
grasslands. On the one hand, prescribed burning can be effectively used for the …

The maintenance of biodiversity is crucial for ecosystem processes such as plant biomass
production, as higher species richness is associated with increased biomass production in …