Environmental classifications are of paramount importance for assessing the impacts of land-
use changes, for prioritizing conservation efforts, and for develo** effective management …

Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …

The prevailing paradigm about the Quaternary ecological and evolutionary history of Central
European ecosystems is that they were repeatedly impoverished by regional extinctions of …

Whether current hypotheses for geographic patterns of species richness (SR) have a strong
explanatory power for the Tibetan Plateau (TP) with extreme climatic conditions remains …

Biodiversity analyses across continental extents are important in providing comprehensive
information on patterns and likely drivers of diversity. For vascular plants in Australia …

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether
these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain …

Semi-dry grasslands are among the most species-rich plant communities in the world,
harbouring many specialised and threatened species. Most of these grasslands were …

Land-use changes resulted in a decline of biodiversity in recent European agricultural
landscapes. Nevertheless, regions practicing sustained low-input farming continue to harbor …

European grasslands are among the most species-rich ecosystems on small spatial scales.
However, human-induced activities like land use and climate change pose significant …

The historical development of the vegetation of semi-dry grasslands in Central Europe is not
satisfactorily understood. Long-term continuity of open vegetation or, conversely, deep-past …