Italy is among the European countries with the greatest plant diversity due to both a great
environmental heterogeneity and a long history of man–environment interactions. Trait …

Due to their ecological sensitivity and limited resource availability, grasslands are
exceptionally vulnerable to environmental changes and human activities. However …

Traditional agro-forest systems (TAFS) link the two ecosystems forest and grassland and are
an attractive, species-rich land-use type in the European cultural landscape. In the past …

In the face of global pollinator decline, extensively managed grasslands play an important
role in supporting stable pollinator communities. However, different types of extensive …

This study investigates how yellow bluestem affects biodiversity in a typical Pannonian
grassland. Beta diversity (ie the finescale spatial variability of species compositions), was …

The cessation of semi-extensive farming and the abandonment of settlements are
threatening European pastoral landscapes and their biodiversity, affecting species …

Questions How does horse or sheep grazing affect species richness, diversity and functional
composition of plant communities in sub‐M editerranean grasslands? What are the …

The research aim was to understand how variation of temperature and water availability
drives trait assemblage of seminatural grasslands in sub-Mediterranean climate, where …

In the Alps, grasslands have been the basis for European mountain farming systems for
centuries, but nowadays agro-pastoral abandonment is among the major threats to their …

Invasion of the tall grass Brachypodium genuense was observed in an area of the central
Apennines (Italy) where the population size of Apennine chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica …