Climate change is having a significant impact on ecosystem services and is likely to become
increasingly important as this phenomenon intensifies. Future impacts can be difficult to …

Mixed-species forests can sometimes fulfil forest functions and services better than
monocultures and are therefore receiving growing attention in forest science and practice …

Mountain regions are globally important areas for biodiversity but are subject to multiple
human‐induced threats, including climate change, which has been more severe at higher …

There is increasing evidence that the impact of climate change on the productivity of
grasslands will at least partly depend on their biodiversity. A high level of biodiversity may …

In recent decades, global change and local anthropogenic pressures have severely affected
natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. Although disentangling the effects of these factors …

Aim The former continental‐scale studies modelled coarse‐grained plant species‐richness
patterns (gamma diversity). Here we aim to refine this information for European forests by (a) …

The ecosystem services (ES) approach is a framework for describing the benefits of nature
to human well‐being, and this has become a popular instrument for assessment and …

Mountain regions provide essential ecosystem goods and services (EGS) for both mountain
dwellers and people living outside these areas. Global change endangers the capacity of …

Wood-pastures have been formed by traditional low-intensity livestock grazing in wooded
areas. They host high biodiversity values that are now threatened by both management …

While agriculture is expanded and intensified in many parts of the world, decreases in land
use intensity and farmland abandonment take place in other parts. Eastern Europe …