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The current human-induced intensification of grazing pressure and the aridity increase as a result of climate change are unprecedented and have been i...

Conservation practices in Europe frequently attempt to perpetuate or mimic the 'traditional' forms of management of semi-natural habitats, but with a ...

Protected natural areas often inherit legacies of altered habitat and predator-prey dynamics. Extirpation of top predators and ecosystem engineers mod...

Because of changing land-use practices and abandonment, many European calcareous grasslands are under increasing threat. In order to protect those gra...

Agricultural intensification has had dramatic effects on farmland biodiversity and has caused declines in many taxa. Habitat changes are thought to be...

Resource competition is an important process governing the impact of livestock on native wild mammalian herbivores, an issue acknowledged to be of glo...

Sheep were grazed at a high stocking rate for a few days 3 times each summer in a Sitka spruce plantation in Co. Antrim from 1970 to 1974 (7th to 11th...

Grazing by domestic livestock is sometimes promoted as a management tool to benefit biodiversity. In many situations, however, it can produce negative...

Land management is critical for biodiversity conservation in mountain grasslands. It should be both ecologically effective and economically efficient....

Management decisions by farmers are influenced by complex interrelations of ecological, economic and social factors. Of equal importance are the indiv...