Grasslands of Northern Europe and the Baltic States
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Grasslands of Northern Europe and the Baltic States. / Dengler, Jürgen; Birge, Traci; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Rašomavicius, Valerijus; Rusina, Solvita; Sickel, Hanne.
Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes: Forests - Trees of Life. ed. / Dominick A. DellaSala; Dominic A. DiPaolo. Vol. 3 Elsevier, 2020. p. 689-702.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Grasslands of Northern Europe and the Baltic States
AU - Dengler, Jürgen
AU - Birge, Traci
AU - Bruun, Hans Henrik
AU - Rašomavicius, Valerijus
AU - Rusina, Solvita
AU - Sickel, Hanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter deals with the grasslands of Northern Europe (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), with a focus on natural and semi-natural grasslands of the lowlands, thus treating arctic-alpine and strongly intensified types only marginally. At present, grasslands cover ca. 7% of the study region, half of which are natural grasslands (mostly arctic-alpine, to a smaller extent also azonal and extra-zonal) and the other half secondary grasslands created by human land use (livestock grazing or haymaking). Both grassland categories have high importance for biodiversity in many taxa. However, particularly the secondary grasslands are profoundly negatively affected by area loss (conversion to other land uses) and quality loss (mainly due to intensification and to abandonment). Conservation measures typically try to mimic traditional low-intensity land uses that are agronomically not profitable anymore.
AB - This chapter deals with the grasslands of Northern Europe (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), with a focus on natural and semi-natural grasslands of the lowlands, thus treating arctic-alpine and strongly intensified types only marginally. At present, grasslands cover ca. 7% of the study region, half of which are natural grasslands (mostly arctic-alpine, to a smaller extent also azonal and extra-zonal) and the other half secondary grasslands created by human land use (livestock grazing or haymaking). Both grassland categories have high importance for biodiversity in many taxa. However, particularly the secondary grasslands are profoundly negatively affected by area loss (conversion to other land uses) and quality loss (mainly due to intensification and to abandonment). Conservation measures typically try to mimic traditional low-intensity land uses that are agronomically not profitable anymore.
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12433-9
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12433-9
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85101360469
SN - 978-0-12-816096-1
VL - 3
SP - 689
EP - 702
BT - Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes
A2 - DellaSala, Dominick A.
A2 - DiPaolo, Dominic A.
PB - Elsevier
ER -
ID: 286917891