Wood-pastures are archetypes of High Nature Value Farmlands in Europe and hold
exceptional ecological, social, and cultural values. Yet, wood-pastures have been through a …

Abstract Purpose of Review Defining the mechanisms behind and the leaf economic
consequences of the development of sclerophylly in woody plants will allow us to …

Soil seed banks offer plants the possibility to disperse through time. This has implications for
population and community dynamics, as recognised by ecological and evolutionary theory …

To solve the serious soil erosion problem on the Loess Plateau, large-scale reforestation
efforts have been carried out in the past few decades. However, previous studies on the …

Grazing is one of the prevalent human activities that even today are taking place inside
protected areas with direct or indirect effects on ecosystems. In this study we analyzed the …

Species distribution modeling was used to determine factors among the large predictor
candidate data set that affect the distribution of Muscari latifolium, an endemic bulbous plant …

Abstract Evaluation of soil seed bank (SSB) in relation to biotic environmental factors could
be important in degraded areas, since SSB is one of the major sources that facilitates the …

Understanding the role of epiphytic vegetation and other microhabitats created by plants
(hereafter lianas) developing on the surrounding ones is crucial for understanding the …

Background: Knowledge about vegetation and soil seed bank composition and the
processes that contribute to vegetation recovery after the removal of heavy grazing is lacking …

The seed banks are vital components for the reestablishment of degraded lands since they
are used to predict the future coverage of vegetation and allow for the implementation of …