Recent land use changes, namely the intensification of agriculture and forestry as well as
the abandonment of traditional grassland management methods, have resulted in the …

Evidence-based conservation allows the evaluation of both the collateral benefits and the
drawbacks of a wide range of human activities, like quarrying. In this study, the community …

Pollinating insect populations, essential for maintaining wild plant diversity and agricultural
productivity, rely on (semi) natural habitats. An increasing human population is encroaching …

Context Habitat conversion for agriculture is a major driver of global biodiversity loss, partly
because of homogeneity within agri-ecosystems. Anthropogenic landscapes can also …

Inland sand dunes rank highly in the most threatened environments throughout Europe,
suffering accelerating losses of associated biodiversity. Although there is increasing …

Gravel pit lakes are increasingly common, and there is an urgent need to better understand
the functioning of these artificial and disconnected ecosystems. However, our knowledge of …

Since the 1950s, an intense sand and gravel quarrying from the river floodplains led to the
formation of pit lakes (PLs) that have changed the morphology and the drainage system of …

Freshwater fishes are widely stocked to enhance existing stocks and create new fishery
opportunities, but quantification of ecological effects of stocking on recipient communities is …

Although numerous studies of several terrestrial groups have revealed high conservation
potential of post-industrial sites, freshwater habitats in post-mining sites still remain little …

Contemporary forest landscapes in boreal and temperate environments, harvested by clear-
cutting, contain various novel types of open spaces which are potentially suitable for species …