The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

Tree species of Eurasian broadleaved forest possess two divergent trait syndromes with
contrasting patterns of resource allocation adapted to different selection environments: short …

Abstract The East-European forest-steppe extends from the Carpathian to the Ural
Mountains, representing a mosaic of broadleaf deciduous forest patches and meadow …

The biogeographic origin of the species‐rich steppe grasslands in central Europe has long
been debated. The alternative hypotheses are long‐term species persistence in situ versus …

Repeated surveys of vegetation plots offer a viable tool to detect fine‐scale responses of
vegetation to environmental changes. In this study, our aim was to explore how the species …

Civilizations, including ancient ones, have shaped global ecosystems in many ways through
coevolution of landscapes and humans. However, the cultural legacies of ancient and lost …

Context Measuring the quality of habitats necessary for the survival of threatened species is
a priority for conservation management, but traditional metrics are often too costly to …

Aims We asked how geological substrate affects the distribution of plant species between
forest interiors, forest edges, and steppe patches in the forest–steppe landscapes …

The most species-rich grasslands worldwide are known from the Carpathian Mts and their
periphery in East-Central Europe. They occur in forest-steppe regions, transitional between …

Early naturalists such as Humboldt observed that changes in topography and anthropogenic
disturbances influenced vegetation structure and the composition of animal communities …