The post-glacial fate of central European grasslands has stimulated palaeoecological
debates for a century. Some argued for the continuous survival of open land, while others …

The vegetation of Europe has undergone substantial changes during the course of the
Holocene epoch, resulting from range expansion of plants following climate amelioration …

The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to
disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Living Labs are recognized as a progressive form to foster innovation and the strengthening
of collaborative planning. The concept has received strong attention by the European Union …

The impact of large herbivores on ecosystems before modern human activities is an open
question in ecology and conservation. For Europe, the controversial wood–pasture …

Abstract Aim Lowland woodlands in Europe went through dramatic changes in management
in the past century. This article investigates the influence of two key factors, abandonment of …

Summary 1 The Vera hypothesis that large herbivores maintained an open landscape in the
primeval landscape of lowland Europe is tested using palaeoecological data. The …

Aim We used a combination of new and previously published palaeoecological data to test
three hypotheses:(1) that wooded steppe persisted in the Great Hungarian Plain throughout …

Biotic homogenization, with its emphasis on invasions, extinctions, and convergence in
taxonomic similarity, provides an important framework for investigating changes in …