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 …

Despite the remarkable growth of the global market for robotics, robotic monitoring of
habitats is still an understudied topic. This is true, among others, for the species-rich EU …

Mediterranean grasslands are semi-natural, fire-prone, species-rich ecosystems that have
been maintained for centuries through a combination of fire, grazing, and mowing. Over the …

Remote sensing (RS) has been widely adopted as a tool to investigate several biotic and
abiotic factors, directly and indirectly, related to biodiversity conservation. European …

Simple Summary The richness (number of species) of the fungi kingdom is estimated at 1.5
million species, but the vast majority remains unknown. Many of them inhabit plants—the so …

Semi-natural calcareous grasslands are of great conservation interest because of their high
species richness, but they are threatened by land abandonment and nitrogen …

We investigated fine-scale patterns of trait-based community assembly in calcareous
grasslands of the Central Apennines, Italy. We used the habitat template of environmentally …

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 …

Plant-soil feedback mechanisms influence the abundance and rarity of plant species and
can favour invasive processes, including those of native species. To explore these …