Climate change and its effects on grassland productivity vary across Europe. The
Mediterranean and Nordic regions represent the opposite ends of a gradient of changes in …

Grasslands provide a wide range of provision, support, regulation, and cultural ecosystem
services (ESs), whose valuation methods can be grouped into three categories (ecological …

Improvement of persistency is an important breeding goal in red clover (Trifolium pratense
L.). In areas with cold winters, lack of persistency is often due to poor winter survival, of …

Abstract Background and Aims Grassland-based livestock systems in cool maritime regions
are commonly dominated by grass monocultures receiving relatively high levels of fertilizer …

Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is the most important forage legume in the Nordic region,
but its utilization is limited by poor persistency. The improvement of cultivated red clover can …

In northern countries, Lolium perenne L. generally survives poorly when grown inland and
north of 60° N because of extensive winter damage. With the projected future climate …

Timothy grass (Phleum pratense L.) is one of the most important forage crops in temperate
regions. Forage production, however, faces many challenges, and new cultivars adapted to …

In the Nordic-Baltic region of Europe, grasslands cover ca. 7% of the study region, half of
which are natural grasslands (mostly arctic-alpine, to a smaller extent also azonal and extra …

Plant nutrient uptake and productivity are driven by a multitude of factors that have been
modified by human activities, like climate change and the activity of decomposers. However …

The ability to tolerate low freezing temperatures is an important component of winter survival
and persistence of red clover. Cold acclimation (CA) allows plants to acquire higher levels of …