Forage quality in mountain grasslands is an important factor for maintaining or improving animal performance. Previous studies identified plant traits beneficial for animal nutrition; however, little is known regarding their maintenance in plant communities. Our main hypothesis was that grazing favors plants with high regrowth capacity and low resource utilization efficiency, promoting the production of high-quality forage. To test the hypothesis, we conducted a grazer exclusion experiment in an Iberian Atlantic grassland combined with a response-effect framework based on various plant traits and an appropriate statistical methodology to measure the relative contribution of species turnover and intraspecific trait variability (ITV) after gr...
Grazing-induced floristic changes in plant communities may accelerate or reduce plant and soil proce...
Though the interplay of grazing intensity and the availability of resources is a key driver in grass...
Mountain ecosystems face many challenges related to global change. Most high-altitude grasslands in ...
Simultaneous reduction of biodiversity and forage nutritive value after grazing abandonment represen...
Can subalpine grasslands recover their pristine conditions if they are abandoned? Since the mid-20th...
Livestock exerts direct and indirect effects on plant communities, changing colonization and extinct...
The surface of many European mountain grasslands is decreasing due to global change and extensive gr...
From the mid-20th Century abandonment of rangelands is the biggest threat in the European high moun...
Progressive abandonment of pastoral activities, a common phenomenon in most mountainous economically...
Livestock grazing represents an important human disturbance for vegetation worldwide. We analysed th...
Grazing by large herbivores has been shown to condition vegetation in a manner that improves grassla...
Livestock grazing can be a problem for forest conservation because it can generate heterogeneous and...
Goat grazing management is a powerful ecological force structuring plant communities which effects a...
1. In some ecosystems there is a positive feedback between forage quality and grazing intensity. Thi...
Semi-natural dry grasslands host some of the most valuable habitats in Europe, due to their biodiver...
Grazing-induced floristic changes in plant communities may accelerate or reduce plant and soil proce...
Though the interplay of grazing intensity and the availability of resources is a key driver in grass...
Mountain ecosystems face many challenges related to global change. Most high-altitude grasslands in ...
Simultaneous reduction of biodiversity and forage nutritive value after grazing abandonment represen...
Can subalpine grasslands recover their pristine conditions if they are abandoned? Since the mid-20th...
Livestock exerts direct and indirect effects on plant communities, changing colonization and extinct...
The surface of many European mountain grasslands is decreasing due to global change and extensive gr...
From the mid-20th Century abandonment of rangelands is the biggest threat in the European high moun...
Progressive abandonment of pastoral activities, a common phenomenon in most mountainous economically...
Livestock grazing represents an important human disturbance for vegetation worldwide. We analysed th...
Grazing by large herbivores has been shown to condition vegetation in a manner that improves grassla...
Livestock grazing can be a problem for forest conservation because it can generate heterogeneous and...
Goat grazing management is a powerful ecological force structuring plant communities which effects a...
1. In some ecosystems there is a positive feedback between forage quality and grazing intensity. Thi...
Semi-natural dry grasslands host some of the most valuable habitats in Europe, due to their biodiver...
Grazing-induced floristic changes in plant communities may accelerate or reduce plant and soil proce...
Though the interplay of grazing intensity and the availability of resources is a key driver in grass...
Mountain ecosystems face many challenges related to global change. Most high-altitude grasslands in ...