Urban grassland restoration: which plant traits make desired species successful colonizers?

Can seed dispersal by human activity play a useful role for the conservation of European grasslands?

(2011) Alistair G. Auffret   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twenty-first Century

(2011) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation

(2011) Ingo Kowarik   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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

(2011) Andrea Schleicher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Seed traits, landscape and environmental parameters as predictors of species occurrence in fragmented urban railway habitats

(2010) Janneke R. Westermann et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

The Association of Dispersal and Persistence Traits of Plants with Different Stages of Succession in Central European Man-Made Habitats

(2010) Vít Latzel et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

New nature by sowing? The current state of species introduction in grassland restoration, and the road ahead

(2010) Petter Hedberg et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Plant community diversity and composition affect individual plant performance

(2010) Andrea Schmidtke et al.   OECOLOGIA

Restoration Potential in Seed Banks of Acidic Fen and Dry-Mesophilous Meadows: Can Restoration Be Based on Local Seed Banks?

(2010) Orsolya Valkó et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

From Reintroduction to Assisted Colonization: Moving along the Conservation Translocation Spectrum

(2010) Philip J. Seddon   RESTORATION 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

Changes in the functional composition of a Central European urban flora over three centuries

(2009) Sonja Knapp et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The shifting balance of facilitation and competition affects the outcome of intra- and interspecific interactions over the life history of California grassland annuals

(2009) Elizabeth A. Leger et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Successful creation of species-rich grassland on road verges depend on various methods for seed transfer

(2009) J.-F. Nordbakken et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Challenging urban species diversity: contrasting phylogenetic patterns across plant functional groups in Germany

(2008) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Dispersal and seed limitation affect diversity and productivity of montane grasslands

(2008) Claudia Stein et al.   OIKOS

Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands

(2008) Sönke Lorentzen et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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