Combatting global grassland degradation

RD Bardgett, JM Bullock, S Lavorel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence

UE Schlägel, V Grimm, N Blaum, P Colangeli… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organismal movement is ubiquitous and facilitates important ecological mechanisms that
drive community and metacommunity composition and hence biodiversity. In most existing …

Frugivore-mediated seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes: Compositional and functional turnover from forest to matrix

JP González-Varo, J Albrecht… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Seed dispersal by frugivores is a fundamental function for plant community dynamics in
fragmented landscapes, where forest remnants are typically embedded in a matrix of …

Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change

M Mina, C Messier, MJ Duveneck… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural disturbances exacerbated by novel climate regimes are increasing worldwide,
threatening the ability of forest ecosystems to mitigate global warming through carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation of carnivorous plants in the age of extinction

AT Cross, TA Krueger, PM Gonella… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Carnivorous plants (CPs)—those possessing specific strategies to attract, capture and kill
animal prey and obtain nutrition through the absorption of their biomass—are harbingers of …

Restoration of plant species and genetic diversity depends on landscape‐scale dispersal

T Aavik, A Helm - Restoration Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the era of ongoing global change, it is highly important that restoration efforts lead to
functioning, self‐sustainable ecosystems that are resilient to disturbance and resistant to …

Functional rather than structural connectivity explains grassland plant diversity patterns following landscape scale habitat loss

A Kimberley, D Hooftman, JM Bullock, O Honnay… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
Context Functional connectivity is vital for plant species dispersal, but little is known about
how habitat loss and the presence of green infrastructure interact to affect both functional …

Effect of landscape connectivity on plant communities: a review of response patterns

L Uroy, A Ernoult, C Mony - Landscape ecology, 2019 - Springer
Context Fragmentation in agricultural landscapes is considered as a major threat to
biodiversity. Thus, ecological corridors are deployed at multiple scales to increase …

Landscape perspectives for agroecological weed management. A review

S Boinot, A Alignier, J Storkey - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2024 - Springer
Faced with the biodiversity extinction crisis and climate change, alternative approaches to
food production are urgently needed. Decades of chemical-based weed control have …

Grazing livestock increases both vegetation and seed bank diversity in remnant and restored grasslands

RE Kapás, J Plue, A Kimberley… - Journal of Vegetation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Restoring grasslands is of great importance to biodiversity conservation to
counteract widespread, ongoing losses of plant species diversity. Using source populations …