Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: Ancient, forgotten ecosystems

2018/11/01 by Angelica Feurdean, Eszter Ruprecht, Zsolt Molnár +2 · 180 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Agroforestry #Archaeology #Biodiversity #Biology #Climate change #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Ecosystem #Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies #Forestry #Geography #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Grassland #Human settlement #Reforestation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2018.09.022

published in Biological Conservation 228, 224-232 (Elsevier BV)

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