Mapping and monitoring high nature value farmlands: challenges in European landscapes

A Lomba, C Guerra, J Alonso, JP Honrado… - Journal of environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
The importance of low intensity farming for the conservation of biodiversity throughout
Europe was acknowledged early in the 1990s when the concept of 'High Nature Value …

Ellenberg N values of bryophytes in Central Europe

J Simmel, M Ahrens, P Poschlod - Journal of Vegetation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present a list of Ellenberg indicator values N values for Central European bryophytes
and the methodology we used to obtain these values. Values are given for 6 hornworts, 255 …

Biodiversity indicators for sustainability monitoring at municipality level: An example of implementation in an alpine region

E Tasser, E Sternbach, U Tappeiner - Ecological indicators, 2008 - Elsevier
As is laid down in the convention on biodiversity, it is essential to install a sustainability
monitoring system with integrated biodiversity indicators on both the regional and local …

A gradient analytic perspective on distribution modelling

R Halvorsen - Sommerfeltia, 2012 - sciendo.com
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 …

The importance of climate, site and management on weed vegetation in oilseed rape in Germany

K Hanzlik, B Gerowitt - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2011 - Elsevier
Data on the occurrence of weed species in 1463 German oilseed rape (OSR) fields were
used to multivariately investigate the interactions of management practices and ecological …

Detection of extinction debt depends on scale and specialisation

SAO Cousins, D Vanhoenacker - Biological Conservation, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

Scale‐dependence of vegetation‐environment relationships in semi‐natural grasslands

I Auestad, K Rydgren, RH Økland - Journal of Vegetation …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Questions: Which environmental and management factors determine plant species
composition in semi‐natural grasslands within a local study area? Are vegetation and …

What is the role of local landscape structure in the vegetation composition of field boundaries?

T Aavik, I Augenstein, D Bailey… - Applied Vegetation …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Question: How distinct is the flora of field boundaries? How does the structure of field
boundaries determine the composition of vegetation? Location: Estonia, six 4 km× 4 km …

Agrotolerant and high nature-value species—Plant biodiversity indicator groups in agroecosystems

T Aavik, J Liira - Ecological Indicators, 2009 - Elsevier
We analysed the effect of agricultural land use intensity and landscape structure on the plant
diversity and improved the monitoring methodology by classifying plant species into two …

Perceiving the aesthetic value of the rural landscape through valid indicators

MSF Rosley, H Lamit, SRA Rahman - Procedia-Social and Behavioral …, 2013 - Elsevier
The assessment of authentic beauty of rural landscape requires valid indicators of visual
aesthetic to attain this, the paper aimed at produces valid indicators that considered …