Farmland abandonment and the decline of livestock activity in the Mediterranean mountains
have resulted in dramatic landscape changes, including the generalized expansion of …

The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

There is currently a growing concern that biocultural heritage is threatened in many
landscapes. This paper focuses on biological cultural heritage, broadly meaning biological …

Abstract 8000 years ago, prior to Neolithic agriculture, Europe was mostly a wooded
continent. Since then, its forest cover has been progressively fragmented, so that today it …

Worldwide reforestation has been recommended as a landscape restoration strategy to
mitigate climate change in areas where the climate can sustain forest. This approach may …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

European semi-dry grasslands are among the most species-rich vegetation types in the
northern hemisphere and form an important part of the habitat mosaics in the forest-steppe …

The occurrence and origin of dry grasslands and their rich biota in the moderately humid
Central‐European climate have fascinated scientists for over a century. Modern …

Anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) is the most important transformation of the Earth
system that occurred in the preindustrial Holocene, with implications for carbon, water and …

Questions The human‐related spread of alien plants has serious environmental and
socioeconomic impacts. Therefore, it is important to know which habitats are most …