The urgent need to preserve ecosystems over vast areas has placed rewilding with wild
herbivores to the forefront. However, there are still few scientific experimental field studies …

Although the spatial patterns of soil microbial community composition are well studied, little
is known about the main factors driving microbial distributions in desert ecosystems …

Cost‐effective strategies to increase biodiversity are a fundamental requirement to reconcile
conservation and food production in agricultural landscapes. Key for the implementation of …

Evidence suggests that the restoration of plant diversity in grasslands not only brings
benefits for biodiversity conservation, but also the delivery of ecosystem services. While …

Increasing plant species richness generally enhances plant biomass production, which may
enhance accumulation of carbon (C) in soil. However, the net change in soil C also depends …

Summary 1 Restoration of high plant species diversity to sites where it has been reduced by
intensive grassland management requires identification of appropriate management …

Microbes are the unseen majority in soil and comprise a large portion of life's genetic
diversity. Despite their abundance, the impact of soil microbes on ecosystem processes is …

Most members of the nonphotosynthetic parasitic genera Orobanche and Phelipanche
(Orobanchaceae) have narrow host ranges, and, as they grow on perennial hosts, are (at …

The performance of root hemiparasites depends strongly on host species identity, but it
remains unknown whether there exist general patterns in the quality of species as hosts for …

Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth century, there is an urgent
need to understand what little unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management …