Both agricultural intensification and abandonment have led to the loss of European semi-
natural grasslands. Nature conservation management measures like mowing are essential …

Endophytic bacteria are critical for plant growth and health. However, compositional and
functional responses of bacterial endophyte communities towards agricultural practices are …

Increasing sward phytodiversity has been suggested as having potential to increase primary
production of grasslands, but whether any such gains are converted into secondary …

Mediterranean wooded grasslands that emerge from silvopastoral activities are
multifunctional systems that result in high biodiversity and offer ecosystem services such as …

While functional diversity (FD) has been shown to be positively related to a number of
ecosystem functions including biomass production, it may have a much less pronounced …

Estimates of asymbiotic biological N fixation (BNF) in temperate grasslands are few with
large variations. In the past six decades, European grasslands have been subjected to …

Soil bacteria are major players in driving and regulating ecosystem processes. Thus, the
identification of factors sha** the diversity and structure of these communities is crucial for …

To maintain and enhance phytodiversity of complex permanent swards, the choice of
livestock is still being debated. In this study, vegetation composition, diversity and sward …

Background and aims Plant traits may characterize functional ecosystem properties and
help to predict community responses to environmental change. Since most traits used relate …

In permanent grassland the influence of NPK fertilizer addition and sward composition
(proportion of plant functional groups) on soil microorganisms and the incorporation of 13 C …