Although the strong relationship between vegetation and climatic factors is widely accepted,
other landscape composition and configuration characteristics could be significantly related …

Understanding the mechanisms that control vegetation development beneath canopy gaps
is of major importance for a nature-based management of European beech forests. We …

Policy makers and farmers need to know the status of farmland biodiversity in order to meet
conservation goals and evaluate management options. Based on a review of 11 monitoring …

Context The habitat amount hypothesis has rarely been tested on plant communities. It
remains unclear how habitat amount affect species richness in habitat fragments compared …

Aim To assess the scale of variation for major environmental gradients in Norway. To obtain
a step‐less model for this variation and to use this model to evaluate the extent to which the …

Context The conversion of natural environments into agricultural land has profound effects
on the composition of the landscape, often resulting in a mosaic of human-altered and …

Finally I list seven challenges of particular importance for progress in DM:(1) that more
knowledge of patterns of natural variation is needed;(2) that a better mechanistic …

Many plants can persist in landscapes for a long time after focal habitats have disappeared
or become fragmented, which might contribute to an extinction debt. Delayed responses of …

Svalbards permafrost is thawing as a direct consequence of climate change. In the Low
Arctic, vegetation has been shown to slow down and reduce the active layer thaw, yet it is …

The decline of bat populations across Europe has generated considerable interest and
activities for the conservation of this enigmatic group of mammals. However, the factors …