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A novel, post‐Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity and abundance on the Eurasian steppe

scientific article published on 14 November 2023

A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

scientific article published in 2012

A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification

scientific article published on 10 February 2024

Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

And the winner is …. ! A test of simple predictors of plant species richness in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published in April 2018

Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure

scientific article

Anthropogenic Fire Patterns Affect Habitat Availability and Niche Use in Sympatric Songbird Species

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Anthropogenic fire patterns affect niche breadth and niche overlap in sympatric songbird species

scientific article published in 2022

Are local plants the best for ecosystem restoration? It depends on how you analyze the data.

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Assessing soil seed bank persistence in flood-meadows: The search for reliable traits

Assessing soil seed bank persistence in flood‐meadows: The search for reliable traits

scientific article

Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Birch encroachment affects the base cation chemistry in a restored bog

Carbon exchange fluxes over peatlands in Western Siberia: Possible feedback between land-use change and climate change

scientific article

Cattle foraging habits shape vegetation patterns of alluvial year-round grazing systems

scientific article published in 2013

Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests

scientific article published on 14 May 2021

Changes in wet meadow vegetation after 20 years of different management in a field experiment (North-West Germany)

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Combining historical aerial photography with machine learning to map landscape change impacts on dry grasslands in the Central Alps

scientific article published in 2023

Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Contribution of the soil seed bank to the restoration of temperate grasslands by mechanical sward disturbance

scientific article

Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia

scientific article

Decomposition disentangled: A test of the multiple mechanisms by which nitrogen enrichment alters litter decomposition

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Developing land use scenarios for stakeholder participation in Russia

scholarly article by Yuliana Griewald et al published November 2017 in Land Use Policy

Direct and plant community mediated effects of management intensity on annual nutrient leaching risk in temperate grasslands

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

Direct and productivity-mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness

scientific article published in 2012

Does organic grassland farming benefit plant and arthropod diversity at the expense of yield and soil fertility?

article

Does plant diversity affect the water balance of established grassland systems?

article

Drivers of soil respiration across a management intensity gradient in temperate grasslands under drought

scientific article published in 2022

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

Ecological significance of seed germination characteristics in flood-meadow species

scientific article published in 2004

Effects of different mowing regimes on seedling recruitment in alluvial grasslands

scientific article published in 2006

Effects of grazing on seasonal variation of aboveground biomass quality in calcareous grasslands

scientific article published in 2011

Effects of land use and landscape patterns on Orthoptera communities in the Western Siberian forest steppe

Effects of mowing, grazing and fertilization on soil seed banks in temperate grasslands in Central Europe

scientific article published in March 2018

Effects of year-round grazing on the vegetation of nutrient-poor grass- and heathlands—Evidence from a large-scale survey

article

Energy crops as a new bird habitat: utilization of oilseed rape fields by the rare Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

Enriching plant diversity in grasslands by large-scale experimental sward disturbance and seed addition along gradients of land-use intensity

article

Environmental variation as a key process of co-existence in flood-meadows

Enzyme kinetics inform about mechanistic changes in tea litter decomposition across gradients in land-use intensity in Central German grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Ephemeral wetland vegetation in irregularly flooded arable fields along the northern Upper Rhine: the importance of persistent seedbanks

Establishment of wildflower strips in a wide range of environments: a lesson from a landscape‐scale project

scientific article published on 03 September 2021

Evaluation of restoration success in alluvial grasslands under contrasting flooding regimes

Evidence from the real world:15N natural abundances reveal enhanced nitrogen use at high plant diversity in Central European grasslands

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Fallow deer foraging alone does not preserve the vegetation of traditionally sheep‐grazed calcareous grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Farmland bird responses to land abandonment in Western Siberia

scientific article published in 2018

Fast and inexpensive detection of total and extractable element concentrations in aquatic sediments using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Fire in lichen-rich subarctic tundra changes carbon and nitrogen cycling between ecosystem compartments but has minor effects on stocks

scientific article published on 01 June 2022

Floristic diversity of meadow steppes in the Western Siberian Plain: effects of abiotic site conditions, management and landscape structure

Genetic differentiation and regional adaptation among seed origins used for grassland restoration: lessons from a multispecies transplant experiment

scientific article published in 2016

Genetic differentiation within multiple common grassland plants supports seed transfer zones for ecological restoration

article

Global patterns of intraspecific leaf trait responses to elevation

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Global population collapse in a superabundant migratory bird and illegal trapping in China.

scientific article published on 08 June 2015

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Gradients of continentality and moisture in South Patagonian ombrotrophic peatland vegetation

Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa

article

Grassland restoration on former arable land: Fine‐scale grass accumulation and damaged soil conditions limit species establishment

scientific article published on 02 May 2022

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Grazing in European open landscapes: How to reconcile sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation?

Hemiparasite-density effects on grassland plant diversity, composition and biomass

scientific article published in June 2018

High fodder value and feeding likelihood favour endozoochorous plant dispersal

article

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

Impact of land-use intensity and productivity on bryophyte diversity in agricultural grasslands

scientific article

Impact of management on biodiversity-biomass relations in Estonian flooded meadows

scientific article published in 2013

Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Influence of competition by sown grass, disturbance and litter on recruitment of rare flood-meadow species

Inter-annual variation in the soil seed bank of flood-meadows over two years with different flooding patterns

scientific article published in 2004

Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

scientific article

Interspecific and geographical differences of plant tissue nutrient concentrations along an environmental gradient in Southern Patagonia, Chile

article

Is there local adaptation in plant species to soil reaction? A lesson from a multispecies experiment

scientific article published on 25 March 2021

Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity

scientific article

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between contrasting grassland states

Land use intensity, rather than plant species richness, affects the leaching risk of multiple nutrients from permanent grasslands

scientific article published on 11 March 2018

Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

scientific article published on 16 January 2023

Large scale application of diaspore transfer with plant material in restoration practice – Impact of seed and microsite limitation

article

Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter

scientific article published on 10 July 2021

Litter removal through fire - A key process for wetland vegetation and ecosystem dynamics

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Livestock grazing in intermountain depressional wetlands—Effects on plant strategies, soil characteristics and biomass

article

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Low investment in sexual reproduction threatens plants adapted to phosphorus limitation

scientific article published on 17 November 2013

Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series

scholarly article

Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images

scientific article

Mix and match: regional admixture provenancing strikes a balance among different seed-sourcing strategies for ecological restoration

NIRS meets Ellenberg's indicator values: Prediction of moisture and nitrogen values of agricultural grassland vegetation by means of near-infrared spectral characteristics

scientific article published in 2012

Niche separation of larks (Alaudidae) and agricultural change on the drylands of the former Soviet Union

Nitrogen limitation reduces the performance of target plant species in restored meadows

scientific article published on 23 November 2021

Nutrient concentrations and fibre contents of plant community biomass reflect species richness patterns along a broad range of land-use intensities among agricultural grasslands

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Nutrient impoverishment and limitation of productivity after 20 years of conservation management in wet grasslands of north-western Germany

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Nutrient stoichiometry and land use rather than species richness determine plant functional diversity

scientific article published on 3 December 2017

Optimization of intervention levels in ecological restoration

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Organic vs. conventional grassland management: do (15)N and (13)C isotopic signatures of hay and soil samples differ?

scientific article

Perspectives for incorporating biomass from non-intensively managed temperate flood-meadows into farming systems

Plant diversity moderates drought stress in grasslands: Implications from a large real-world study on (13)C natural abundances.

scientific article

Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

scientific article published on 9 May 2019

Plants adapted to warmer climate do not outperform regional plants during a natural heat wave

scientific article

Population structure of the threatened perennial Serratula tinctoria in relation to vegetation and management

Positive long-term effects of year-round horse grazing in orchid-rich dry calcareous grasslands–Results of a 12-year study

scientific article published on 26 January 2023

Post-Soviet Land-Use Change Affected Fire Regimes on the Eurasian Steppes

scientific article

Post-Soviet agricultural change predicts future declines after recent recovery in Eurasian steppe bird populations

Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia

Post-Soviet shifts in fire and grazing regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Post-burn and long-term fire effects on plants and birds in floodplain wetlands of the Russian Far East

scholarly article

Post-fire vegetation succession in the Siberian subarctic tundra over 45 years

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Potential of temperate agricultural soils for carbon sequestration: A meta-analysis of land-use effects.

scientific article

Prediction of delta(13)C and delta(15)N in plant tissues with near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy.

scientific article

Quantitative mesophyll parameters rather than whole-leaf traits predict response of C3 steppe plants to aridity

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Rapid evolution of flower phenology and clonality in restored populations of multiple grassland species

scientific article published in 2024

Re-assessing the ecology of rare flood-meadow violets (Viola elatior, V. pumila andV. persicifolia) with large phytosociological data sets

Recovery of ecosystem functions after experimental disturbance in 73 grasslands differing in land‐use intensity, plant species richness and community composition

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Reducing Sample Quantity and Maintaining High Prediction Quality of Grassland Biomass Properties with near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy

Regional differences in soil pH niche among dry grassland plants in Eurasia

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Renaturierung von Feuchtgrünland, Auengrünland und mesophilem Grünland

Restoration of a species-rich flood meadow by topsoil removal and diaspore transfer with plant material

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Restoration of a species-rich flood meadow by topsoil removal and diaspore transfer with plant material

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Restoration of plant diversity in permanent grassland by seeding: Assessing the limiting factors along land‐use gradients

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

Restoration of sand grasslands by topsoil removal and self-greening

Resurveying inner-alpine dry grasslands after 70 years calls for integrative conservation efforts

scientific article published in 2024

Reviews

scientific article published in 2009

Seasonal variations of fodder quality and availability as constraints for stocking rates in year-round grazing schemes

Sedimentation-induced eutrophication in large river floodplains – An obstacle to restoration?

Seedling recruitment in flood-meadow species: The effects of gaps, litter and vegetation matrix

Seedling recruitment in flood‐meadow species: The effects of gaps, litter and vegetation matrix

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Soil carbon sequestration due to post-Soviet cropland abandonment: estimates from a large-scale soil organic carbon field inventory

scientific article

Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

South Patagonian ombrotrophic bog vegetation reflects biogeochemical gradients at the landscape level

Species introduction - a major topic in vegetation restoration

Species introduction in restoration projects – Evaluation of different techniques for the establishment of semi-natural grasslands in Central and Northwestern Europe

scientific article published in 2010

Spontaneous steppe restoration on abandoned cropland in Kazakhstan: grazing affects successional pathways

Strengths and potential pitfalls of hay transfer for ecological restoration revealed by RAD-seq analysis in floodplain Arabis species

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Temporal and small-scale spatial variation in grassland productivity, biomass quality, and nutrient limitation

scientific article published in 2016

The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria

scientific article published on 02 February 2022

The effects of management and environmental variation on population stage structure in three river-corridor violets

scientific article published in 2004

The impact of flooding regime on the soil seed bank of flood-meadows

The impact of site conditions and seed dispersal on restoration success in alluvial meadows

The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands

article

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The return of the steppe large-scale restoration of degraded land in southern Russia during the post-Soviet era

scientific article published in January 2002

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2022

The type of nutrient limitation affects the plant species richness-productivity relationship: Evidence from dry grasslands across Eurasia

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Time lags in functional response to management regimes - evidence from a 26-year field experiment in wet meadows

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Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships

article by Fons van der Plas et al published 27 August 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Using geolocator tracking data and ringing archives to validate citizen-science based seasonal predictions of bird distribution in a data-poor region

scientific article published in 2020

Vegetation discontinuities and altitudinal indicator species in mountains of West Greenland: finding the best positions and traits to observe the impact of climate warming in the Arctic

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Vegetation pattern of mountains in West Greenland – a baseline for long-term surveillance of global warming impacts

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Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2024

Will I stay or will I go? Plant species‐specific response and tolerance to high land‐use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

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