Impacts of nitrogen addition on plant biodiversity in mountain grasslands depend on dose, application duration and climate: a systematic review

JY Humbert, JM Dwyer, A Andrey… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although the influence of nitrogen (N) addition on grassland plant communities has been
widely studied, it is still unclear whether observed patterns and underlying mechanisms are …

Plant diversity declines with recent land use changes in European Alps

G Niedrist, E Tasser, C Lüth, J Dalla Via, U Tappeiner - Plant Ecology, 2009 - Springer
Against a background of increasing land use intensification on favorable agricultural areas
and land abandonment on less arable areas in the Alps, the aim of this investigation was to …

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

S Lavorel, K Grigulis, P Lamarque… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially explicit understanding of the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (ES) from
global to local scales is currently limited. New studies analysing the simultaneous provision …

The material‐cultural turn: event and effect

D Hicks - 2010 - academic.oup.com
The Material‐Cultural TurnEvent and Effect | The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies |
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Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions

SA Socher, D Prati, S Boch, J Müller… - Basic and Applied …, 2013 - Elsevier
The relationship of different types of grassland use with plant species richness and
composition (functional groups of herbs, legumes, and grasses) has so far been studied at …

Predicting spatial patterns of plant species richness: a comparison of direct macroecological and species stacking modelling approaches

A Dubuis, J Pottier, V Rion, L Pellissier… - Diversity and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim This study compares the direct, macroecological approach (MEM) for modelling species
richness (SR) with the more recent approach of stacking predictions from individual species …

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

S Garcés-Pastor, E Coissac, S Lavergne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The European Alps are highly rich in species, but their future may be threatened by
ongoing changes in human land use and climate. Here, we reconstructed vegetation …

Land use more than 200 years ago explains current grassland plant diversity in a Swedish agricultural landscape

E Gustavsson, T Lennartsson, M Emanuelsson - Biological conservation, 2007 - Elsevier
The reformation of the Swedish agricultural system, about 150years ago, drastically
changed the use of semi-natural grasslands. Grassland plant diversity has declined due to …

Plant species richness and composition in managed grasslands: the relative importance of field management and environmental factors

S Klimek, M Hofmann, J Isselstein - Biological conservation, 2007 - Elsevier
Decline of grassland diversity throughout Europe within the last decades is threatening
biological diversity and is a major conservation problem. There is an urgent need to …

Effects of land-use and land-cover pattern on landscape-scale biodiversity in the European Alps

P Zimmermann, E Tasser, G Leitinger… - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2010 - Elsevier
This study aims at (1) detecting the main agricultural land-use/land-cover (LULC) trends that
have occurred across the Alps since the 19th century and (2) assessing how landscape …