Pablo Garrido

• PhD
• PhD Student at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

European grasslands and their biodiversity are declining rapidly due to land use changes, which highlight the need to develop effective restoration strategies. This study investigates the impact of reintroducing the Swedish national horse breed (the Gotland Russ) on grassland plant diversity and evenness in abandoned agricultural landscapes in Sout...

The newly passed European Nature Restoration Law is most welcome but it fails to recognize the paramount role of missing large herbivore grazers on ecosystems and therefore hinders the ability of richer herbivore communities to provide restoration services and natural climate solutions via trophic rewilding.

Grassland ecosystems are species-rich habitats that are rapidly declining globally posing serious concerns for biodiversity conservation. This situation is particularly relevant in agricultural areas in Europe. As traditional management practices and livestock grazing regimes ceased, rewilding could be a potential avenue to tackle current biodivers...

Large herbivores play key roles in terrestrial ecosystems. Continuous defaunation processes have produced cascade effects on plant community composition, vegetation structure, and even climate. Wood-pastures were created by traditional management practices that have maintained open structures and biodiversity for millennia. In Europe, despite the b...

Semi‐natural grasslands are rich in biodiversity and thus important habitats for conservation, yet they are experiencing rapid declines due to agricultural intensification and abandonment. Promoting a more diverse mammalian herbivore community, including large and megaherbivores, may result in positive cascade effects for biodiversity and ecosystem...

Wood-pastures are multi-functional habitats that uphold high ecological and cultural values. However, they are currently declining in Europe as a result of land use changes. How can we better understand wood-pastures to foster conservation? To answer the question it is necessary to investigate both the social and ecological components of wood-pastu...

Due to anthropogenic alteration of stand composition and landscape pattern in Swedish forest landscapes managed for industrial wood production, remnant patches of deciduous forests and woodlands do not form a functional green infrastructure for biodiversity conservation. We assessed if large herbivore browsing hampers the restoration of deciduous f...

Green infrastructure (GI) policy encourages the spatial planning of natural and semi-natural areas to deliver biodiversity conservation and a wide range of ecosystem services (ES) important to human well-being. Much of the current literature relies on expert-led and top-down processes to investigate connections between landscapes’ different land co...

Ecosystem services (ES) research is currently widely utilized. However, qualitative approaches and socio-cultural valuations of ES are still limited. This may undermine future landscape conservation initiatives because important services for people may not be captured. We performed 29 face-to-face semi-structured interviews to capture stakeholders'...

Ecosystem services (ES) research has rapidly gained momentum in environmental policy and practice. However, qualitative socio-cultural approaches are still limited, and therefore, ES important for people, are currently not commonly captured. We performed 34 face-to-face semi-structured interviews to describe stakeholders' appreciation of ES from de...

Human and nature interactions have been the ancestral normative model to provide and secure livelihoods worldwide. Hence, humans have been coevolving in an intrinsic relation with the natural system until medieval times. The mentioned interactions formed the so-called cultural landscapes as a result of human gradual re-organization and adaptation o...

In southern Sweden, maintaining high cervid densities through supplemental feeding has become a common management practice. We aim at investigating deer browsing pressure on young Norway spruce in relation to distance from supplemental feeding sites. Because available forage is considered important in understanding browsing patterns, we modeled sev...

This article describes 14 different case studies in Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Ukraine. It is about solving various problems and conflicts in complex socio-ecological systems, such as the conflict between hunters and the promotion of predators in forests; forestry and game management for the promotion of moose in forests; reindeer husbandry and t...

Translating policies about sustainable development as a social process and sustainability outcomes into the real world of social–ecological systems involves several challenges. Hence, research policies advocate improved innovative problem-solving capacity. One approach is transdisciplinary research that integrates research disciplines, as well as r...

The causes of the browsing intensity are not fully understood and even less for this non-preferred and economically valuable tree species. Browsing pressure on spruce trees (Picea abies) caused by fallow deer (Dama dama) around supplemental feeding sites was investigated. Trees were classified in three different categories to cover the variability...

The former migration theory of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) suggested that spruce established in Sweden along the Swedish Bothnian coast c. 3500 years ago from an eastern refuge area through Finland. Recent spruce megafossil finds of Late Glacial and early Holocene in west central Sweden have challenged this theory suggesting a much earl...