Functional rather than structural connectivity explains grassland plant diversity patterns following landscape scale habitat loss

Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe

(2020) Thomas Vanneste et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Habitat fragmentation reduces plant progeny quality: a global synthesis

(2019) Ramiro Aguilar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Identifying plant and environmental indicators of ancient and recent calcareous grasslands

(2019) Petr Karlík et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment

(2019) Ellen I. Damschen et al.   SCIENCE

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Associations between plant and pollinator communities under grassland restoration respond mainly to landscape connectivity

(2018) Roser Rotchés-Ribalta et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Connectivity or area: what drives plant species richness in habitat corridors?

(2018) Jan Thiele et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Super-regional land-use change and effects on the grassland specialist flora

(2018) Alistair G. Auffret et al.   Nature Communications

Grazing networks promote plant functional connectivity among isolated grassland communities

(2018) Jan Plue et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Human-Mediated Dispersal and the Rewiring of Spatial Networks

(2018) James M. Bullock et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant functional connectivity - integrating landscape structure and effective dispersal

(2017) Alistair G. Auffret et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed dispersal in both space and time is necessary for plant diversity maintenance in fragmented landscapes

(2017) Jan Plue et al.   OIKOS

Hotspots of land use change in Europe

(2016) Tobias Kuemmerle et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Achieving climate connectivity in a fragmented landscape

(2016) Jenny L. McGuire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Persistent Disparities between Recent Rates of Habitat Conversion and Protection and Implications for Future Global Conservation Targets

(2016) James E.M. Watson et al.   Conservation Letters

The spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes

(2015) Alistair G. Auffret et al.   AMBIO

Regional-scale land-cover change during the 20th century and its consequences for biodiversity

(2015) Sara A. O. Cousins et al.   AMBIO

Recovery of plant diversity in restored semi-natural pastures depends on adjacent land use

(2015) Marie Winsa et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Response of plant functional traits during the restoration of calcareous grasslands from forest stands

(2015) Julien Piqueray et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Connectivity and management enables fast recovery of plant diversity in new linear grassland elements

(2015) Simon Jakobsson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Dispersal-limited species – A challenge for ecological restoration

(2014) Bruno Baur   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant species occurrence in a fragmented grassland landscape: the importance of species traits

(2014) Marianne Evju et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The effectiveness of ditch banks as dispersal corridor for plants in agricultural landscapes depends on species’ dispersal traits

(2014) William F.A. van Dijk et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

(2014) Stephan Getzin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Grassland connectivity by motor vehicles and grazing livestock

(2013) Alistair G. Auffret et al.   ECOGRAPHY

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Stepping stones are crucial for species' long-distance dispersal and range expansion through habitat networks

(2013) Santiago Saura et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Functional responses of plant communities to management, landscape and historical factors in semi-natural grasslands

(2013) M. Vandewalle et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Landscape- and small-scale determinants of grassland species diversity: direct and indirect influences

(2012) Antonio Gazol et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Plant species richness: the world records

(2012) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mapping to inform conservation: A case study of changes in semi-natural habitats and their connectivity over 70years

(2011) D.A.P. Hooftman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Paving the Way for Invasive Species: Road Type and the Spread of Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)

(2011) Martin Joly et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Placing linkages among fragmented habitats: do least-cost models reflect how animals use landscapes?

(2011) Sarah C. Sawyer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Testing coexistence of extinction debt and colonization credit in fragmented calcareous grasslands with complex historical dynamics

(2011) Julien Piqueray et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape

(2011) Andrea Schleicher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Extinction debt in fragmented grasslands: paid or not?

(2009) Sara A.O. Cousins   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Dispersal failure contributes to plant losses in NW Europe

(2008) Wim A. Ozinga et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do restored calcareous grasslands on former arable fields resemble ancient targets? The effect of time, methods and environment on outcomes

(2008) Kate C. Fagan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant diversity in a calcareous wooded meadow - The significance of management continuity

(2008) Tsipe Aavik et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations

(2007) Andrew Gelman   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE