Sabine Tischew

• Prof. Dr.
• Professor (Full) at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

One of the most endangered plant communities in Germany, and one that is on the verge of extinction, is the lichen pine forest (Cladino-Pinetum sylvestris, syn. Cladonio-Pinetum sylvestris). For this reason, it has been selected by the Floristisch-soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft as the “Plant Community of the Year 2025”. Lichen pine forests are u...

Aus der literatur- und erfahrungsbasierten Analyse der Naturschutzverwaltung in den Bundesländern in Teil 1 des Beitrags werden 20 Thesen abgeleitet. Mit diesen Anregungen soll ein grundlegender Reformprozess eingeleitet werden, um die Naturschutzverwaltung für das 21. Jahrhundert zukunftsfähig zu gestalten. Diese betreffen (1) organisationale Stru...

En restauration écologique, la mise en place de normes adaptées pour la production de semences indigènes est cruciale, afin de garantir le bon fonctionnement des écosystèmes restaurés Les directives existantes ont établi des normes exigeantes pour la production et l’approvisionnement en semences d’espèces indigènes, et proposent différents schémas...

A nationwide survey of opinions, with the participation of scientists and practitioners as well as evaluation of scientific work, shows that nature conservation administration is less and less able to fulfil its mandate. This initially becomes clear when politically set biodiversity targets are missed. Behind this is a bundle of complex challenges,...

Global change strongly affects biodiversity and ecosystem functionality in agricultural landscapes through climate change, land use intensification and related habitat degradation. To counteract these negative impacts, various ecosystem and landscape restoration (ELR) measures were developed. However, restoration science still lacks a deeper unders...

Since 2019 the ‘Floristisch-soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft’ (FlorSoz) has annually nominated the ‘plant community of the year’, to draw attention to Germany’s endangered plant communities in need of protection. This campaign specifically aims at supporting the conservation of plant communities and their habitats as well as at promoting political...

Grasslands are ubiquitous globally, and their conservation and restoration are critical to combat both the biodiversity and climate crises. There is increasing interest in implementing effective multifunctional grassland restoration to restore biodiversity concomitant with above- and belowground carbon sequestration, delivery of carbon credits and/...

Photovoltaics is one of the key technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving climate neutrality for Europe by 2050, which has led to the promotion of solar parks. These parks can span up to several hundred hectares, and grassland vegetation is usually created between and under the panels. Establishing species-rich grasslands usi...

Livestock farming, which produces milk and meat, is practised by nearly all cultures. But in addition to this, grazing livestock fulfils other fundamentally important roles, one of which is the maintenance of open landscapes, which in turn provides habitat for many rare plant and animal species. Whether wild large herbivores, such as red deer (Cerv...

Citation: Kirmer, A., Grünhage, V.M.; Köhler, B.; Ballesteros, M.; Corrià-Ainslie, R.; Cortina-Segarra, J.; Domínguez-Gómez, A.; Hagen, D.; Laguna, E.; Meyer, M.A.; Pietx, J; Šebelíková, L.; Skrindo, A.B.; Řehounková, K.; Tischew, S. 2023. TRAIN#ER Guidelines: Recommendations for integration of ecological restoration in vocational training in Europ...

Introduction Dry calcareous grasslands are among the most species-rich habitats worldwide but strongly endangered by abandonment causing a severe decline of characteristic species such as orchids. To counteract further degradation, economically sustainable restoration tools such as megaherbivore grazing, that aim to substitute extinct wild grazers,...

The Principles and Standards by Young et al. (2022) provide an international framework for ecological restoration of mine sites. Although useful, these Standards are limited as a basis for practice, especially in Europe, partly by neglecting the fact that semi‐natural habitats are often desirable restoration targets in anthropogenic cultural landsc...

In order to communicate issues relating to the protection of plant communities and their habitats more effectively to the general public, the Floristisch-Soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (FlorSoz) has proclaimed a “Plant Community of the Year” since 2019 and an explanatory text is published. This is intended to point out communities that are criti...

The European Green Deal aims for Europe becomes the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. In this strategy, Photovoltaic (PV) is one of the key technologies to reduce significant greenhouse gas emissions. However, large ground-mounted PV power plants generate conflict between stakeholders interested in the same land. Farmers are worried...

Monitoring data on wild bees are still lacking in Germany, despite their importance for ecosystem functioning and agriculture. Decision-makers have realised the need of large-scale monitoring programmes for wild bees to better understand how populations respond to land-use change and other pressures in the long term, and to ensure effective agri-en...

Native seeds – opportunity or risk for biodiversity conservation? A thesis paper on the implementation of § 40 BNatSchG According to § 40 BNatSchG, since March 2020 only plants that “have their genetic origin in the area concerned” may be spread in the wild. This article discusses possibilities for implementing this regulation with regard to the...

Agricultural systems in Central Europe were redesigned during the last century to attain maximum yields. The results often lead to homogeneous landscapes with only few structures of ecological value and have concurrently exacerbated habitat fragmentation. Perennial wildflower strips have become a significant agri-environmental measure (AEM) to coun...

Farmland bird populations are in a deep crisis across Europe. Agri-environment schemes (AES) were implemented by the European Union to stop and reverse the general decline of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. In Germany, flower strips are one of the most common AES. Establishing high-quality perennial wildflower strips (WFS) with species-ric...

Flower strips are a fundamental part of agri‐environment schemes (AESs) introduced by the European Union to counteract the loss of biodiversity and related ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. Although vegetation composition of the strips is essential for most fauna groups, comprehensive studies analysing vegetation development and influe...

Perennial wildflower strips (WFS) are known to have positive effects on wild bees in intensively used agricultural landscapes. Little knowledge exists, however, about the drivers of wild bee occurrence and if Red List species also profit from this agri-environmental scheme (AES). Therefore, we studied wild bees on transects along 20 four- to five-y...

The multiple land use of agricultural areas is a building block for increased land use efficiency. Unlike monoculture, integrated crop-livestock systems optimally improve ecosystem services, making it an important field of research and application for adapting land use and food systems that have sustainability deficits. The integration of sheep in...

Arable vegetation of calcareous soils, the plant community alliance known as Caucalidion, has been newly elected “Plant community of the Year 2022”. In this review article, we provide an overview of the Caucalidion in Germany, its species composition, life cycle and biodiversity, distribution, habitat and phytosociological variation, its history, r...

Perennial wildflower strips are widely implemented as agri-environmental measure to provide wild bees and other pollinators in uniform agricultural landscapes with floral resources. Their effectiveness depends on the landscape context, but two issues important for landscape analysis have remained unstudied: what are (i) the most critical geodata (c...

Aims We tested the establishment success of grassland species in the presence or absence of zoochory by livestock and identified the traits associated with successful establishment. Location Hortobágy National Park, Hungary. Methods In six restored species-poor grasslands we established two species-rich 16 m²-sized source plots per site in 2013....

The extent and speed of biodiversity loss in Germany, that has been continuing for decades, is unprecedented and has developed into a veritable biodiversity crisis. Thereby, the long-term downward trend in species diversity affects not only the intensively used agricultural landscape, but also protected areas. Using the example of the 800 ha semi-o...

Since alluvial meadows of river valleys of the Cnidion dubii are protected by the EU Habitats Directive, reconciling farmers’ demands for forage quality with the objective of maintaining them in good conservation status is an important issue in grassland research. In a long-term experiment from 2010 to 2018, we investigated the impact of fertilizin...

The extent and speed of biodiversity loss in Germany, that has been continuing for decades, is unprecedented and has developed into a veritable biodiversity crisis. The long-term downward trend in species diversity is found not only in the intensively used agricultural landscape, but also in protected areas. Using the example of the 800 ha semi-ope...

Dry calcareous grasslands are one of the most species-rich habitats in the cultural landscape of Central Europe. The species richness largely resulted from the activities of humans and their livestock. Due to large-scale abandonment driven by socioeconomic changes during the last century, shrub encroachment is one of the main threats to many orchid...

In Germany, the xerothermophilic grasshopper Oedipoda germanica occurs at its northern range and is threatened with extinction here. Recent populations have often been low in individuals and use very small areas. As a result, conservationists are often concerned about integrating these sites into management when pasturing is reintroduced. In 2014–2...

Weinbau ist eine der intensivsten ackerbaulichen Kulturen, gleichzeitig liegen Weinberge oft eingebettet in Biodiversitäts-Hotspots. Die Begrünung mit heimischen Wildpflanzen anstelle konventionell offen gehaltener oder mit Gras-Klee-Saaten angesäter Gassen kann die Artenvielfalt und daran gekoppelte Ökosystemleistungen im Weinberg erhöhen. In der...

Zu den besonders gefährdeten Pflanzengesellschaften Deutschlands zählen Hartholz-Auenwälder (Ficario-Ulmetum, Syn.: Querco-Ulmetum), weshalb diese von der Floristisch-soziologischen Arbeits-gemeinschaft als "Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2021" ausgewählt wurden. Hartholz-Auenwälder sind Laubwald-Ökosysteme der planaren und kollinen Stufe und beze...

Aufgrund sozioökonomischer Veränderungen wurde vielerorts in Mitteleuropa die traditionelle Beweidung der ertragsarmen Trockenrasen aufgegeben. Die Flächen verbuschten und die typischen lichtliebenden Arten gingen schrittweise verloren. Am Beispiel von Trockenstandorten im Unteren Saaletal (Sachsen-Anhalt) zeigen wir, dass durch Ziegenbeweidung die...

DEUTSCH: Mehrfachnutzungen landwirtschaftlicher Flächen sind ein Baustein zur Steigerung der Flächeneffizienz. Gegenüber der Monokultur verbessern sie im Optimalfall Ökosystemleistungen und sind daher ein wichtiges Forschungs- und Anwendungsfeld für eine Adaption nachhaltigkeitsdefizitärer Landnutzungs- und Ernährungssysteme. Der Einsatz von Schafe...

Sowing of grass seed mixtures is a feasible and cost‐effective method for landscape‐scale grassland restoration. However, sowing only grasses usually leads to species‐poor and dense swards, where the establishment of target forbs is hampered by microsite and propagule limitation. To overcome these limitations and increase the diversity of species‐p...

Within the frame of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, most countries subsidise the establishment and maintenance of perennial flower strips on arable land within Agri-Environmental Schemes to provide foraging habitats and refuges for wildlife. In a replicated field experiment, we studied the effects of different types of seed mixtures on the estab...

Sowing of grass seed mixtures is a feasible and cost-effective method for landscape-scale grassland restoration. However, sowing only grasses usually leads to species-poor and dense grass sward, where the establishment of target forbs is hampered both by microsite and propagule limitation. To overcome these limitations and increase the diversity of...

As for the first time in 2019 the ‘Floristisch-soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (FlorSoz)’ introduces the ‘Plant Community of the Year 2020’ for Germany. The FlorSoz proposal aims to alert the public that the conservation of endangered plant communities and their biodiversity is essential. For the year 2020 the plant community of mat-grass swards...

Vor den 1950er Jahren war Dactylorhiza majalis eine sehr häufige Art der Feucht- und Nasswiesen. Deutschland als Arealzentrum war nahezu flächendeckend besiedelt (Wegener 2011). Zwar ist die Art auch heute noch deutlich häufiger vorzufinden als andere Orchideenarten, aber bereits seit mindestens 20 Jahren ein Rückgang im Bergland und ein starker R...

Dieser Leitfaden enthält Bewirtschaftungsempfehlungen für die nach der europäischen Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Richtlinie ausgewiesenen Lebensraumtypen Brenndolden-Auenwiesen (6440), Magere Flachland-Mähwiesen (6510) und Berg-Mähwiesen (6520) in Sachsen-Anhalt. Wir richten uns mit diesem praxisorientierten Leitfaden insbesondere an Landwirte. Auch ohne bo...

Leseproben, Inhaltsverzeichnis und Erwerb über https://www.abu-naturschutz.de/projekte/laufende-projekte/naturnahe-beweidung (18 Euro Einzelexemplar). Im Vordergrund des Buches stehen die Auswirkungen naturnaher Beweidung auf die Lebensraumtypen sowie die Tier- und Pflanzenarten der FFH-Richtlinie und die Vogelarten der Vogelschutzrichtlinie. Mittl...

Leseproben, Inhaltsverzeichnis und Erwerb über https://www.abu-naturschutz.de/projekte/laufende-projekte/naturnahe-beweidung (25 Euro Einzelexemplar). Im Vordergrund des Buches stehen die Auswirkungen naturnaher Beweidung auf die Lebensraumtypen sowie die Tier- und Pflanzenarten der FFH-Richtlinie und die Vogelarten der Vogelschutzrichtlinie. Mitt...

Im Vordergrund des Buches stehen die Auswirkungen naturnaher Beweidung auf die Lebensraumtypen sowie die Tier- und Pflanzenarten der FFH-Richtlinie und die Vogelarten der Vogelschutzrichtlinie. Mittlerweile mehren sich wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen von Ganzjahresweiden; einige Arbeiten sind bereits veröffentlicht, andere noch nicht abgeschlossen...

Im Vordergrund des Buches stehen die Auswirkungen naturnaher Beweidung auf die Lebensraumtypen sowie die Tier- und Pflanzenarten der FFH-Richtlinie und die Vogelarten der Vogelschutzrichtlinie. Mittlerweile mehren sich wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen von Ganzjahresweiden; einige Arbeiten sind bereits veröffentlicht, andere noch nicht abgeschlossen...

Mit dem Leitfaden werden, ausgehend von den Ergebnissen des Modellprojektes "Halboffene Weidelandschaft Oranienbaumer Heide", praxisnahe Hinweise zur Einrichtung und langfristigen Sicherung von halboffenen Weidelandschaften in großflächigen, sandgeprägten Natura 2000-Gebieten mit ehemals militärischer Nutzung gegeben. Im Leitfaden werden im Einzeln...

Im Jahr 2017 wurde für das Gebiet des Biosphärenreservats Karstlandschaft Südharz erstmalig eine systematische Erfassung der bekannten Vorkommen des Breitblättrigen Knabenkrautes (Dactylorhiza majalis) durchgeführt sowie Daten zum Pflegezustand und der aktuellen Flächennutzung erhoben. Der für Sachsen-Anhalt sowie ganz Deutschland postulierte abneh...

Der vorliegende Praxisleitfaden soll die Anlage von Säumen und Feldrainen in produktiven Agrarlandschaften und im urbanen Bereich erleichtern. Es werden wertvolle Hinweise zur Planung von Ansaatmischungen mit Wildpflanzen, zur Bodenvorbereitung, zur Umsetzung der Maßnahme (Ansaatzeitpunkt, Ansaatmethode, Ansaatstärke) und zur Entwicklungs- und Folg...

Der Abbau von Rohstoffen geht mit einem drastischen Landschafts- und Ökosystemwandel einher. Um einen Teil der negativen Folgen auszugleichen, sind die beim Abbauprozess entstehenden Landschaftsstrukturen und die vielfältigen Entwicklungspotentiale dieser Flächen bei der Sanierungsplanung zu berücksichtigen. Das Besondere der neu entstandenen Ökosy...

Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich mit dem Zustand, den Funktionen und der Renaturierung der wichtigsten Ökosysteme Mitteleuropas. Das Werk ist in vier Teile mit insgesamt 26 Kapiteln gegliedert, in denen die Autoren die Grundlagen der Renaturierungsökologie, ihre Anwendung in naturnahen und anthropogen geprägten Ökosystemen sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen...

Das durch Beweidung und Mahd bei mäßiger Düngung entstandene Wirtschaftsgrünland ist ein typisches Element der bäuerlichen Kulturlandschaft. Bei nicht zu intensiver Nutzung weist dessen Vegetation eine hohe Artenvielfalt auf. In ackerbaulichen Gunstlagen ist es seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu massiven Grünlandverlusten und zur Degradation vieler...

Die Renaturierung von Ökosystemen basiert auf internationalen Übereinkommen und Richtlinien sowie deren nationaler rechtlicher Umsetzung. Die Rahmenbedingungen für Renaturierungsvorhaben sind das internationale Übereinkommen für die biologische Vielfalt (CBD) und die europäischen Richtlinien zur Sicherung der Vorkommen wildlebender Arten und ihrer...

Zwergstrauchheiden und bodensaure Magerrasen sind durch historische Waldzerstörung und Aushagerung in den Geestlandschaften des Norddeutschen Tieflandes und auf sauren Lehmböden der Silikatmittelgebirge entstanden. Während bodensaure Magerrasen auf eine düngerlose Beweidung zurückgehen, waren für die Tieflandsheiden Beweidung, Plaggen, Brennen und...

In Europe, most countries subsidise the establishment of perennial flower strips on arable land within agri-environmental schemes. Although they are used for foraging and reproduction by a variety of organisms, the populations of many farmland birds continue declining. Whilst many studies focus on flower strips established with cultivars or of non-...

Goat pasturing is often recommended for managing shrub-encroached dry grasslands, but entails higher grazing pressure. However, there have been few studies about the effects of goats on assumedly grazing sensitive geophytes. Therefore, in conservation practice, low-intensity migratory herding is still preferred in dry grasslands inhabited by threat...

About 17% of the territory of Western and Northern Europe (including the western part of Central Europe) is covered by grasslands. Of these 1/5 are natural grasslands, mainly in arctic-alpine and coastal areas, while 4/5 are secondary grasslands created via millennia of human land management, such as grazing, mowing and burning. As long as technolo...

Link for Download (valid until 23 November 2017): https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1VqN-cA-ISCFO ______________ In highly productive farmlands, field margins could offer habitats and refuges for many plant and animal species. But species-rich field margins are rapidly declining due to field enlargements and unfavourable management practices. In Euro...

European dry grasslands are predominantly semi-natural communities. Commonly, they have been used as pastures for sheep and goats. Due to their richness in biological diversity and the large number of threatened species, they are recognized as being of high conservation value. However, in the last few decades, a dramatic decline in dry grassland ar...

Um Themen des Schutzes von Pflanzengemeinschaften wirksamer in der breiten Öffentlichkeit zu kommunizieren wird der Vorstand der "Floristisch-Soziologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft (FlorSoz)" ab 2019 eine "Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres" ausrufen. Damit sollen politische und administrative Ent-scheidungs-und Umsetzungsprozesse zur Erhaltung der Vielfa...

Reintroducing endangered plant species is an important conservation strategy. However, only a few studies evaluate their long-term reintroduction success. Because such information is vital for understanding the success and failure of species reintroductions, we conducted a seven-year reintroduction experiment with Jurinea cyanoides, an endangered x...

The spread of competitive grasses, changes in species composition and vegetation structure are direct consequences of grassland and heathland abandonment. As an alternative to more costly management measures such as traditional pastoralism, year-round low-intensity grazing with large herbivores is increasingly used to restore and maintain semi-open...

Introduction: Knowledge about the regeneration ecology of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth), a key species of early woodland development stages, is fundamentally important to establish strategies for developing near-natural woodlands in post-mining landscapes. On 119 plots covering three former open cast lignite mining areas, we studied the effect...

The abandonment of traditional pastoralism as well as the use of heath areas for military purposes has had a major impact on dry heaths in the Continental biogeographical region of Europe, causing severe degradation of its key species Calluna vulgaris (L.) HULL. The reproductive potential of this species in a Continental climate is assumed to be lo...

The majority of grasslands of European interest are currently assessed as having an unfavorable conservation status. In order to fulfil the targets of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 effort to restore the diversity of species-poor grasslands are required. Besides the improvement of site conditions by management agreements the active introducti...

In autumn 2010 and spring 2011, respectively, the State Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture Saxony-Anhalt in cooperation with the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences established a trial with perennial flower strips to achieve reliable results for the new CAP funding period 2014-2020. Six wildflower-rich mixtures with seeds from certified s...

Shrub encroachment is one of the main causes of dry grassland loss in Central Europe. Abandoned semi-natural grasslands are often overgrown by thorny or spiny shrubs. Such unpalatable shrubs have frequently established by selective foraging during periods with low grazing pressure, particularly if sheep herding was performed. Feeding behaviour and...

Large herbivores, such as robust horse breeds, are increasingly used to develop and maintain open habitats. However, their use on calcareous grasslands has rarely been tested. On the one hand, conservationists fear an unequal use of the pasture with partial abandonment, encroachment or reduced ground light conditions, as well as partial over-grazin...

Am Beispiel der Oranienbaumer Heide wird aufgezeigt, welche Renaturierungseffekte in degradierten subkontinentalen Sand-Ökosystemen mit einer extensiven Megaherbivoren-Beweidung erbracht werden können. Die Beweidung fördert maßgeblich die Wiederherstellung der typisch lückigen Habitatstrukturen und bewirkt einen deutlichen Rückgang des Land-Reitgra...

The Oranienbaumer Heide was chosen for a demonstration of the effects of large herbivore grazing on heavily degraded sub-continental sandy ecosystems. Grazing was found to foster various developments: It leads to a typical sparse vegetation cover; grazing facilitates a decrease of Calamagrostis epigejos with the result of an increase of target and...

Halting the loss of grassland biodiversity and restoring degraded ecosystems are high priority tasks in the EU Biodiversity Strategy. Sowing low-diversity seed mixtures is widely used in grassland restoration because of its high predictability and fast, promising results. Generally, the sown perennial grasses establish within a few years and form a...

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In many parts of Germany, land consolidation resulted in huge arable fields at the expense of species-rich vegetation types. Especially in highly productive agricultural regions of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), natural vegetation is scarce, consisting mostly of dense grass swards. This resulted in a severe and ongoing decline of biological diversity. Wi...

A large-scale field experiment with different management options (free-range grazing, onetime cutting, additional disturbances and their interactions) was carried out in a continental, dry heathland. Within the framework of the experiment seed production and germination ability of over-aged Calluna individuals as well as specific safe site conditio...

In einer vierjährigen Feldstudie wurde im Mitteldeutschen Trockengebiet auf lößreicher Schwarzerde die Vegetationsentwicklung von mit regionalem Wildpflanzensaatgut angesäten Feldrainen und mehrjährigen Blühstreifen dokumentiert. Aus den Ergebnissen wurden Praxisempfehlungen zur Anlage und zur Pflege dieser Flächen abgeleitet. Es zeigte sich, dass...

In den Bundesländern werden auch in der neuen Förderperiode (2014 – 2020) verschiedene Agrarumwelt- und Klimamaßnahmen (AUKM) für Landwirte angeboten. In Sachsen-Anhalt wird u.a. die Anlage von mehrjährigen Blühstreifen und Blühflächen sowie einjähriger Blühstreifen unterstützt. Mit den in diesem Heft vorgestellten Maßnahmen, insbesondere zur Anlag...

Die Braunkohlesanierung ist eines der größten Umweltprojekte Europas. Ca. 30 Braunkohlentagebaue und fast 90 Standorte von Kraftwerks- und Veredlungsanlagen werden seit Anfang der 90er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts im Raum Halle/Leipzig und in der Lausitz saniert. Ziel ist die Beseitigung von Umweltschäden und die Wiederherstellung attraktiver und sic...

Free-range grazing by large herbivores combined with one-time mowing of over-aged heathlands offers an excellent management tool to maintain and enhance biodiversity in degraded large scale, low productive, semi-open dry sandy grassland-heathland ecosystems. Grazing improves habitat quality, supports typical species communities and represses invasi...

The protection of ancient, species-rich grasslands containing regional sub-species and ecotypes is a top priority in nature conservation. By using directly harvested seed mixtures from ancient grasslands in restoration and re-vegetation it is possible to contribute directly to the preservation and enhancement of biological diversity. But there are...

In Central and Western Europe, species-rich field margins and fringe communities with high proportions of flowering herbs as habitats for insects (e.g. pollinators) and other animals are strongly degraded or missing in many landscapes due to land-use intensification and ruderalisation. In 2010, a restoration project was started in two regions with...

During the restoration of grasslands, restoration success can be limited by several factors and practical problems. Based on results of the studies presented in this book we summarize here the major aspects of restoration project planning and implementation with a focus on the use of native seed and plant material. Using decision trees and flow-cha...

World-wide, the degradation and destruction of both natural and traditionally used semi-natural ecosystems is drastically increasing. Unfortunately, commercial seed mixtures, consisting of non-native species and genetically uniform cultivars are widely used in grassland restoration, often with negative effects on biodiversity. Therefore, native spe...