Soil Disturbance as a Grassland Restoration Measure—Effects on Plant Species Composition and Plant Functional Traits

Experimental evidence for disturbance as key to the conservation of dune grassland

(2014) Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Soil disturbance favours threatened beetle species in sandy grasslands

(2014) Pål Axel Olsson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Conservation of Sandy Calcareous Grassland: What Can Be Learned from the Land Use History?

(2014) Anja Madelen Ödman et al.   PLoS One

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Natural Establishment of Specialist Plant Species after Topsoil Removal and Soil Perturbation in Degraded Calcareous Sandy Grassland

(2013) Pål Axel Olsson et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Soil disturbance as a restoration measure in dry sandy grasslands

(2012) Anja Madelen Ödman et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Immediate responses in soil chemistry, vegetation and ground beetles to soil perturbation when implemented as a restoration measure in decalcified sandy grassland

(2011) Anja Madelen Ödman et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Threatened inland sand vegetation in the temperate zone under different types of abiotic and biotic disturbances during a ten-year period

(2011) Christopher Faust et al.   FLORA

Effects of soil disturbance on plant diversity of calcareous grasslands

(2010) Tim Krone Schnoor et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Is the combination of topsoil replacement and inoculation with plant material an effective tool for the restoration of threatened sandy grassland?

(2010) Carsten Eichberg et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying relationships between traits and explicitly measured gradients of stress and disturbance in early successional plant communities

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Acidification of sandy grasslands - consequences for plant diversity

(2009) Pål Axel Olsson et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Two-phase functional redundancy in plant communities along a grazing gradient in Mongolian rangelands

(2009) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ECOLOGY

Substitutes for grazing in semi-natural grasslands - do mowing or mulching represent valuable alternatives to maintain vegetation structure?

(2009) Christine Römermann et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Soil chemistry of local vegetation gradients in sandy calcareous grasslands

(2009) Linda-Maria Mårtensson et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Functional traits as indicators of fodder provision over a short time scale in species-rich grasslands

(2008) Pauline Ansquer et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Assessing Conservation Action for Substitution of Missing Dynamics on Former Military Training Areas in Central Europe

(2008) Anke Jentsch et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Semi-natural grassland continuity, long-term land-use change and plant species richness in an agricultural landscape on Öland, Sweden

(2007) Lotten J. Johansson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Spontaneous Vegetation Succession in Gravel–Sand Pits: A Potential for Restoration

(2007) Klára Řehounková et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY