Biodiversity underpins the functioning of ecosystems and the diverse benefits that nature
provides to people, yet is being lost at an unprecedented rate. To halt or reverse biodiversity …

Mountain grazing lands are key constituents of the natural, economical and cultural heritage,
but at the same time sensitive to climate and land use change, hence requiring urgent …

The use of very long spatial datasets from satellites has opened up numerous opportunities,
including the monitoring of vegetation phenology over the course of time. Considering the …

This work estimates yield losses due to drought events in the mountain grasslands in north-
eastern Italy, laying the groundwork for index-based insurance. Given the high correlation …

While the importance of permanent grasslands (PG) for the conservation of high nature
value habitats is often acknowledged, their role in most of the main sustainable food system …

European inner-alpine dry grasslands face substantial threats within the increasingly human-
altered landscape, endangering their persistence. To understand changes in dry grassland …

Permanent grasslands represent the main terrestrial ecosystem and serve as an important
global reservoir of biodiversity, providing a wide range of benefits to humans and …

Over the last century, the management of pastoral systems has undergone major changes to
meet the livelihood needs of alpine communities. Faced with the changes induced by recent …

This article presents the structure and results of a simplified model (VISTOCK) for simulating
grass growth and water dynamics of grassland systems. The model, based on a process …

The relationship between plant diversity and the ecosystem carbon pool is important for
understanding the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functions. However, it is not …