Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Grasslands are globally distributed and naturally occurring; however, in Europe, most
grasslands are anthropogenically created or altered by livestock grazing or mowing. Low …

Ruminants have lower feed use efficiency than monogastric livestock, and produce higher
reactive nitrogen and methane emissions, but can utilize human-inedible biomass through …

Mapping spatiotemporal land cover changes offers opportunities to better understand trends
and drivers of environmental change and helps to identify more sustainable land …

We propose to consider semi-natural habitats—hotspots for biodiversity—being caught in a
socio-ecological extinction vortex, similar to the phenomenon described for species …

Temperate grasslands are part of one of the biggest biomes on earth, sustaining high levels
of biodiversity and providing multiple ecosystem services. However, the area covered by this …

Grassland degradation poses a serious threat to biodiversity, ecosystem services, and
human well-being. In this study, we investigated grassland degradation in Zhaosu County …

As a breakthrough in geographical data science, two high-resolution (10m) global land
cover products were published by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and …

Livestock has been a backbone of people's livelihood as long as agriculture has existed in
Scandinavia, c. 6,000 years. In the early Iron Age, c. 2,000 years ago, a land management …

Permanent grasslands (PG) feature in the European rural landscape and represent a major
agricultural production resource. They support multiple non-provisioning ecosystem services …