Local and landscape responses of biodiversity in calcareous grasslands

Vegetation monitoring in a 100-year-old calcareous grassland reserve in Germany

(2019) Markus Bauer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Adjacent woodlands rather than habitat connectivity influence grassland plant, carabid and bird assemblages in farmland landscapes

(2018) Rémi Duflot et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Life-history characteristics of European birds

(2018) Lenka Storchová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Epigeal spider assemblage responses to vegetation structure under contrasting grazing management in upland calcareous grasslands

(2018) Ashley Lyons et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Fertilising semi-natural grasslands may cause long-term negative effects on both biodiversity and ecosystem stability

(2018) Indrek Melts et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Long-term fertilizer regimes have both direct and indirect effects on arthropod community composition and feeding guilds

(2017) E. C. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Island biogeography theory outweighs habitat amount hypothesis in predicting plant species richness in small grassland remnants

(2017) Jessica P. Lindgren et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Year-round horse grazing supports typical vascular plant species, orchids and rare bird communities in a dry calcareous grassland

(2016) Martina Köhler et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Spillover of arthropods from cropland to protected calcareous grassland – the neighbouring habitat matters

(2016) Filipe Madeira et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Factors threatening grassland specialist plants - A multi-proxy study on the vegetation of isolated grasslands

(2016) Balázs Deák et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Butterfly community shifts over two centuries

(2016) Jan Christian Habel et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Managing calcareous grassland for the declining Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina butterfly: effects of grazing management on Primula host plants

(2016) Anne E. Goodenough et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Diverse landscapes have a higher abundance and species richness of spring wild bees by providing complementary floral resources over bees’ foraging periods

(2016) Rachel E. Mallinger et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

(2016) Martin M. Gossner et al.   NATURE

Species Richness Responses to Structural or Compositional Habitat Diversity between and within Grassland Patches: A Multi-Taxon Approach

(2016) Szabolcs Lengyel et al.   PLoS One

Local and landscape management drive trait-mediated biodiversity of nine taxa on small grassland fragments

(2015) Urs Kormann et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

(2015) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity conservation across taxa and landscapes requires many small as well as single large habitat fragments

(2015) Verena Rösch et al.   OECOLOGIA

Long-term changes in calcareous grassland vegetation in North-western Germany – No decline in species richness, but a shift in species composition

(2014) Martin Diekmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Dark diversity in dry calcareous grasslands is determined by dispersal ability and stress-tolerance

(2014) Kersti Riibak et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The Role of Nitrogen Deposition in Widespread Plant Community Change Across Semi-natural Habitats

(2014) Chris D. Field et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Assessing the integrated effects of landscape fragmentation on plants and plant communities: the challenge of multiprocess-multiresponse dynamics

(2014) Inés Ibáñez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species richness in dry grassland patches of eastern Austria: A multi-taxon study on the role of local, landscape and habitat quality variables

(2013) Klaus Peter Zulka et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Function of small habitat elements for enhancing plant diversity in different agricultural landscapes

(2013) R. Lindborg et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Heterogeneity fosters biodiversity: Linking history and ecology of dry calcareous grasslands

(2012) Jacqueline Diacon-Bolli et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant species richness: the world records

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

Management effects on the vegetation and soil seed bank of calcareous grasslands: An 11-year experiment

(2010) Hans Jacquemyn et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

(2010) Jochen Krauss et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Butterfly and plant specialists suffer from reduced connectivity in fragmented landscapes

(2010) Sabrina V. Brückmann et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant species loss decreases arthropod diversity and shifts trophic structure

(2009) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in species richness and composition in European acidic grasslands over the past 70 years: the contribution of cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition

(2009) CECILIA DUPRÈ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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