List of works - Sara A. O. Cousins

A call for consistency with the terms ‘wetter’ and ‘drier’ in climate change studies

scientific article

A landscape perspective on conservation of semi-natural grasslands

A methodological study for biotope and landscape mapping based on CIR aerial photographs

After the hotspots are gone: Land use history and grassland plant species diversity in a strongly transformed agricultural landscape

article

An intraspecific application of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient

article

Analysis of land-cover transitions based on 17th and 18th century cadastral maps and aerial photographs

article by Sara A. O. Cousins published 2001 in Landscape Ecology

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition on petals enhances seed quality of the forest herb Anemone nemorosa

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation within plant populations of three herbaceous plant species along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Climate change effects on the Baltic Sea borderland between land and sea.

scientific article

Climatic control of forest herb seed banks along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published in 2013

Connectivity and management enables fast recovery of plant diversity in new linear grassland elements

article

Context matters: the landscape matrix determines the population genetic structure of temperate forest herbs across Europe

scientific article published in 2021

Contrasting altitudinal variation of alpine plant communities along the Swedish mountains

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Desiccation resistance determines distribution of woodlice along forest edge-to-interior gradients

Detection of extinction debt depends on scale and specialisation

Dispersal and establishment limitation reduces the potential for successful restoration of semi-natural grassland communities on former arable fields

scientific article published in 2009

Dispersal limitation, eutrophication and propagule pressure constrain the conservation value of Grassland Green Infrastructure

scientific article

Does historical land use affect the regional distribution of fleshy-fruited woody plants?

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Does the seed bank contribute to the build-up of a genetic extinction debt in the grassland perennial Campanula rotundifolia?

scientific article

Drivers of carbon stocks in forest edges across Europe

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Earlier onset of flowering and increased reproductive allocation of an annual invasive plant in the north of its novel range

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Ecological niche shifts of understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient of temperate forests in north-western Europe

article

Effect of green infrastructure on restoration of pollination networks and plant performance in semi‐natural dry grasslands across Europe

scientific article published in 2024

Effects of enhanced nitrogen inputs and climate warming on a forest understorey plant assessed by transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

article

Effects of historical and present fragmentation on plant species diversity in semi-natural grasslands in Swedish rural landscapes

article

Environmental drivers of Ixodes ricinus abundance in forest fragments of rural European landscapes

scientific article

Extinction debt in fragmented grasslands: paid or not?

Floral resources in Swedish grasslands remain relatively stable under an experimental drought and are enhanced by soil amendments if regularly mown

scientific article published in 2023

Forest edges reduce slug (but not snail) activity-density across Western Europe

scientific article published in July 2019

Forest understorey communities respond strongly to light in interaction with forest structure, but not to microclimate warming

scientific article

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

scientific article

Functional trait variation of forest understorey plant communities across Europe

article

Geophagic termite mounds as one of the resources for African elephants in Ugalla Game Reserve, Western Tanzania

scholarly article by Elikana Kalumanga et al published 11 July 2016 in African Journal of Ecology

Grassland connectivity by motor vehicles and grazing livestock

scientific article published in 2013

Grassland species colonization of a restored grassland on a former forest varies in short‐term success but is facilitated by greater functional connectivity ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 March 2023

Grazing networks provide useful functional connectivity for plants in fragmented systems

article

Green infrastructure can promote plant functional connectivity in a grassland species around fragmented semi‐natural grasslands in NW‐Europe

scientific article published in 2022

Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

High ecosystem service delivery potential of small woodlands in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land-use maps in R

scientific article published in 2017

Historical habitat connectivity affects current genetic structure in a grassland species

article

How does a wetland plant respond to increasing temperature along a latitudinal gradient?

scientific article published on 03 November 2021

Humans as Long-Distance Dispersers of Rural Plant Communities ⬇️

scientific article published on May 2, 2013

Immigration credit of temperate forest herbs in fragmented landscapes—Implications for restoration of habitat connectivity

scientific article published on 24 August 2021

Impact of an invasive alien plant on litter decomposition along a latitudinal gradient

article

Interacting effects of change in climate, human population, land use, and water use on biodiversity and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Bodil Elmhagen et al published 2015 in Ecology and Society

Interacting effects of warming and drought on regeneration and early growth of Acer pseudoplatanus and A. platanoides

scientific article

Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post-agricultural forests

scientific article published in 2010

Investigating biodiversity trajectories using scenarios--lessons from two contrasting agricultural landscapes.

scientific article

Island biogeography theory outweighs habitat amount hypothesis in predicting plant species richness in small grassland remnants

article

Isolation by 454-sequencing and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the tetraploid perennial herb Campanula rotundifolia

Land uplift creates important meadow habitat and a potential original niche for grassland species ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2018

Land use history and site location are more important for grassland species richness than local soil properties

scientific article published in 2009

Landscape context and management regime structure plant diversity in grassland communities

article

Landscape history and soil properties affect grassland decline and plant species richness in rural landscapes

article

Landscape structure and land use history influence changes in island plant composition after 100 years

article

Land‐use history and fragmentation of traditionally managed grasslands in Scandinavia

Latitudinal variation of life-history traits of an exotic and a native impatiens species in Europe

scientific article published in 2017

Linking macrodetritivore distribution to desiccation resistance in small forest fragments embedded in agricultural landscapes in Europe

scientific article published in 2018

Local soil characteristics determine the microbial communities under forest understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Low genetic diversity despite multiple introductions of the invasive plant species Impatiens glandulifera in Europe ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Methodological bias in the seed bank flora holds significant implications for understanding seed bank community functions.

scientific article

Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

scientific article published in 2023

Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests

scientific article

Moving towards the edge: matrix matters!

Multiscale drivers of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in small European woodlands

scientific article published on 07 November 2020

No genetic erosion after five generations for Impatiens glandulifera populations across the invaded range in Europe ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Past and present management influences the seed bank and seed rain in a rural landscape mosaic

scientific article published in 2011

Patterns of phenotypic trait variation in two temperate forest herbs along a broad climatic gradient

scientific article published in 2015

Plant functional connectivity - integrating landscape structure and effective dispersal

article

Plant species identity and soil characteristics determine rhizosphere soil bacteria community composition in European temperate forests

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Plant species response to land use change -Campanula rotundifolia,Primula verisandRhinanthus minor

article

Plant species richness in midfield islets and road verges – The effect of landscape fragmentation

article

Plant-soil feedbacks of forest understorey plants transplanted in nonlocal soils along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Political systems affect mobile and sessile species diversity--a legacy from the post-WWII period

scientific article

Population size and reproduction in the declining endangered forest plant Chimaphila umbellata in Sweden

article

Reconstructing past land use and vegetation patterns using palaeogeographical and archaeological data

scholarly article by Sara A. O. Cousins published in September 2002

Regional-scale land-cover change during the 20th century and its consequences for biodiversity

scientific article

Remnant Populations and Plant Functional Traits in Abandoned Semi-Natural Grasslands

article

Remnant grassland habitats as source communities for plant diversification in agricultural landscapes

article

Seed dispersal by ungulates as an ecological filter: a trait-based meta-analysis

scientific article published in 2015

Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda

scientific article

Sensitivity to habitat fragmentation across European landscapes in three temperate forest herbs

scientific article

Size and heterogeneity rather than landscape context determine plant species richness in semi-natural grasslands

article

Small scale environmental variation modulates plant defence syndromes of understorey plants in deciduous forests of Europe

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Spatial scale and specialization affect how biogeography and functional traits predict long-term patterns of community turnover

scholarly article by Alistair G. Auffret et al published 8 August 2016 in Functional Ecology

Species richness and composition differ in response to landscape and biogeography

article

Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges

scientific article published on 17 April 2021

Temporal dispersal in fragmented landscapes

The Neolithic Plant Invasion Hypothesis: the role of preadaptation and disturbance in grassland invasion

article

The changing contribution of top-down and bottom-up limitation of mesopredators during 220 years of land use and climate change.

scientific article

The contribution of patch-scale conditions is greater than that of macroclimate in explaining local plant diversity in fragmented forests across Europe

article

The distribution of four grassland plant species in relation to landscape history in a Swedish rural area

scientific article published on 2007

The geography of human-mediated dispersal

scientific article published in 2014

The importance of history for understanding contemporary ecosystems: Insights from vegetation science

scientific article

The influence of field shape, area and surrounding landscape on plant species richness in grazed ex-fields

article

The influence of management history and habitat on plant species richness in a rural hemiboreal landscape, Sweden

scholarly article by Sara A. O. Cousins & Ove Eriksson published 2002 in Landscape Ecology

The response of forest plant regeneration to temperature variation along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 16 February 2012

The role of seed rain, seed bank, and clonal growth in plant colonization of ancient and restored grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

The spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on January 2015

Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management

scientific article

Using warming tolerances to predict understory plant responses to climate change

scientific article published in 2023

Where does the community start, and where does it end? Including the seed bank to reassess forest herb layer responses to the environment

article

List of works by Sara A. O. Cousins

A call for consistency with the terms ‘wetter’ and ‘drier’ in climate change studies

A landscape perspective on conservation of semi-natural grasslands

A methodological study for biotope and landscape mapping based on CIR aerial photographs

After the hotspots are gone: Land use history and grassland plant species diversity in a strongly transformed agricultural landscape

An intraspecific application of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient

Analysis of land-cover transitions based on 17th and 18th century cadastral maps and aerial photographs

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition on petals enhances seed quality of the forest herb Anemone nemorosa

Biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation within plant populations of three herbaceous plant species along a latitudinal gradient

Climate change effects on the Baltic Sea borderland between land and sea.

Climatic control of forest herb seed banks along a latitudinal gradient

Connectivity and management enables fast recovery of plant diversity in new linear grassland elements

Context matters: the landscape matrix determines the population genetic structure of temperate forest herbs across Europe

Contrasting altitudinal variation of alpine plant communities along the Swedish mountains

Desiccation resistance determines distribution of woodlice along forest edge-to-interior gradients

Detection of extinction debt depends on scale and specialisation

Dispersal and establishment limitation reduces the potential for successful restoration of semi-natural grassland communities on former arable fields

Dispersal limitation, eutrophication and propagule pressure constrain the conservation value of Grassland Green Infrastructure

Does historical land use affect the regional distribution of fleshy-fruited woody plants?

Does the seed bank contribute to the build-up of a genetic extinction debt in the grassland perennial Campanula rotundifolia?

Drivers of carbon stocks in forest edges across Europe

Earlier onset of flowering and increased reproductive allocation of an annual invasive plant in the north of its novel range

Ecological niche shifts of understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient of temperate forests in north-western Europe

Effect of green infrastructure on restoration of pollination networks and plant performance in semi‐natural dry grasslands across Europe

Effects of enhanced nitrogen inputs and climate warming on a forest understorey plant assessed by transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

Effects of historical and present fragmentation on plant species diversity in semi-natural grasslands in Swedish rural landscapes

Environmental drivers of Ixodes ricinus abundance in forest fragments of rural European landscapes

Extinction debt in fragmented grasslands: paid or not?

Floral resources in Swedish grasslands remain relatively stable under an experimental drought and are enhanced by soil amendments if regularly mown

Forest edges reduce slug (but not snail) activity-density across Western Europe

Forest understorey communities respond strongly to light in interaction with forest structure, but not to microclimate warming

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

Functional trait variation of forest understorey plant communities across Europe

Geophagic termite mounds as one of the resources for African elephants in Ugalla Game Reserve, Western Tanzania

Grassland connectivity by motor vehicles and grazing livestock

Grassland species colonization of a restored grassland on a former forest varies in short‐term success but is facilitated by greater functional connectivity ⬇️

Grazing networks provide useful functional connectivity for plants in fragmented systems

Green infrastructure can promote plant functional connectivity in a grassland species around fragmented semi‐natural grasslands in NW‐Europe

Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

High ecosystem service delivery potential of small woodlands in agricultural landscapes

HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land-use maps in R

Historical habitat connectivity affects current genetic structure in a grassland species

How does a wetland plant respond to increasing temperature along a latitudinal gradient?

Humans as Long-Distance Dispersers of Rural Plant Communities ⬇️

Immigration credit of temperate forest herbs in fragmented landscapes—Implications for restoration of habitat connectivity

Impact of an invasive alien plant on litter decomposition along a latitudinal gradient

Interacting effects of change in climate, human population, land use, and water use on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Interacting effects of warming and drought on regeneration and early growth of Acer pseudoplatanus and A. platanoides

Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post-agricultural forests

Investigating biodiversity trajectories using scenarios--lessons from two contrasting agricultural landscapes.

Island biogeography theory outweighs habitat amount hypothesis in predicting plant species richness in small grassland remnants

Isolation by 454-sequencing and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the tetraploid perennial herb Campanula rotundifolia

Land uplift creates important meadow habitat and a potential original niche for grassland species ⬇️

Land use history and site location are more important for grassland species richness than local soil properties

Landscape context and management regime structure plant diversity in grassland communities

Landscape history and soil properties affect grassland decline and plant species richness in rural landscapes

Landscape structure and land use history influence changes in island plant composition after 100 years

Land‐use history and fragmentation of traditionally managed grasslands in Scandinavia

Latitudinal variation of life-history traits of an exotic and a native impatiens species in Europe

Linking macrodetritivore distribution to desiccation resistance in small forest fragments embedded in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Local soil characteristics determine the microbial communities under forest understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient

Low genetic diversity despite multiple introductions of the invasive plant species Impatiens glandulifera in Europe ⬇️

Methodological bias in the seed bank flora holds significant implications for understanding seed bank community functions.

Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests

Moving towards the edge: matrix matters!

Multiscale drivers of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in small European woodlands

No genetic erosion after five generations for Impatiens glandulifera populations across the invaded range in Europe ⬇️

Past and present management influences the seed bank and seed rain in a rural landscape mosaic

Patterns of phenotypic trait variation in two temperate forest herbs along a broad climatic gradient

Plant functional connectivity - integrating landscape structure and effective dispersal

Plant species identity and soil characteristics determine rhizosphere soil bacteria community composition in European temperate forests

Plant species response to land use change -Campanula rotundifolia,Primula verisandRhinanthus minor

Plant species richness in midfield islets and road verges – The effect of landscape fragmentation

Plant-soil feedbacks of forest understorey plants transplanted in nonlocal soils along a latitudinal gradient

Political systems affect mobile and sessile species diversity--a legacy from the post-WWII period

Population size and reproduction in the declining endangered forest plant Chimaphila umbellata in Sweden

Reconstructing past land use and vegetation patterns using palaeogeographical and archaeological data

Regional-scale land-cover change during the 20th century and its consequences for biodiversity

Remnant Populations and Plant Functional Traits in Abandoned Semi-Natural Grasslands