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Due to climate change, an increasing frequency and severity of drought events are expected to impair grassland productivity, particularly of intensive...

A substantial part of the world's land base is dominated by agriculture, and forest habitat often consists of discrete patches of forest and linear wo...

Landscape heterogeneity represents two aspects of landscape simplification: (i) compositional heterogeneity (diversity of habitat types); and (ii) con...

Climate change and extreme events, such as drought, threaten ecosystems world-wide and in particular mountain ecosystems, where species often live at ...

The Eurasian steppe has long been subject to grazing by domestic ungulates at high levels, resulting in widespread deterioration of biodiversity and e...

In Europe and North America, there is growing concern that biodiversity declines associated with agricultural intensification will adversely impact th...

Agricultural intensification and expansion are regarded as major causes of worldwide declines in biodiversity during the last century. Agri-environmen...

There is a global requirement to improve the environmental sustainability of intensively managed grassland monocultures that rely on high rates of nit...

Overgrazing has resulted in widespread decline in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in grasslands world-wide in recent decades. However, few stud...

In the tropics, smallholder farming characterizes some of the world's most biodiverse landscapes. Agroecology as a pathway to sustainable agriculture ...