Assessing the Effects of Grassland Management on Forage Production and Environmental Quality to Identify Paths to Ecological Intensification in Mountain Grasslands

Integrating ecological engineering and ecological intensification from management practices to ecosystem services into a generic framework: a review

(2015) Freddy Rey et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Animal performances, pasture biodiversity and dairy product quality: How it works in contrasted mountain grazing systems

(2014) Anne Farruggia et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Climate variability drives livestock farmers to modify their use of collective summer mountain pastures

(2014) Cyrille Rigolot et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Towards an agroecological assessment of dairy systems: proposal for a set of criteria suited to mountain farming

(2014) R. Botreau et al.   Animal

A vegetation-based indicator to assess the pollination value of field margin flora

(2014) Charles Ricou et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Plant trait-digestibility relationships across management and climate gradients in permanent grasslands

(2014) Antoine Gardarin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Leaf Dry Matter Content Predicts Herbivore Productivity, but Its Functional Diversity Is Positively Related to Resilience in Grasslands

(2014) Robin J. Pakeman   PLoS One

Agroecological practices for sustainable agriculture. A review

(2013) Alexander Wezel et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Optimizing ecosystem function by manipulating pasture community composition

(2013) Sarah C. Goslee et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

(2013) Karl Grigulis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dairy systems in mountainous areas: Farm animal biodiversity, milk production and destination, and land use

(2013) E. Sturaro et al.   Livestock Science

Increasing land-use intensity decreases floral colour diversity of plant communities in temperate grasslands

(2013) Julia Binkenstein et al.   OECOLOGIA

From a conceptual framework to an operational approach for managing grassland functional diversity to obtain targeted ecosystem services: Case studies from French mountains

(2013) M. Duru et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Prospects from agroecology and industrial ecology for animal production in the 21st century

(2012) B. Dumont et al.   Animal

Managing ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: are the solutions the same?

(2012) Sarina Macfadyen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Action versus Result-Oriented Schemes in a Grassland Agroecosystem: A Dynamic Modelling Approach

(2012) Rodolphe Sabatier et al.   PLoS One

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security

(2012) Riccardo Bommarco et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Designing cropping systems from nature

(2011) Eric Malézieux   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Phytodiversity of temperate permanent grasslands: ecosystem services for agriculture and livestock management for diversity conservation

(2011) N. Wrage et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Facing up to the paradigm of ecological intensification in agronomy: Revisiting methods, concepts and knowledge

(2011) Thierry Doré et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Seasonal dynamics of biomass production and herbage quality of three grasslands with contrasting functional compositions

(2011) A. Michaud et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Management to enhance pollen and nectar resources for bumblebees and butterflies within intensively farmed landscapes

(2011) R. F. Pywell et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Grass–legume mixtures can yield more nitrogen than legume pure stands due to mutual stimulation of nitrogen uptake from symbiotic and non-symbiotic sources

(2010) Daniel Nyfeler et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Comparison of methods for assessing the impact of different disturbances and nutrient conditions upon functional characteristics of grassland communities

(2010) M. Duru et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant diversity enhances provision of ecosystem services: A new synthesis

(2010) Sandra Quijas et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Characterizing potential flexibility in grassland use. Application to the French Aubrac area

(2009) G. Martin et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

A biodiversity monitoring framework for practical conservation of grasslands and shrublands

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2008) Pauline Ansquer et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Identifying and managing the conflicts between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Europe–A review

(2007) Klaus Henle et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Developing biodiversity indicator to design efficient agri-environmental schemes for extensively used grassland

(2007) Bettina Matzdorf et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Mountain grassland biodiversity: Impact of site conditions versus management type

(2007) D. Kampmann et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION