Gheorghe Groza's research while affiliated with University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine and other places

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Alpine grasslands in the Southern Carpathian Mts, Romania, harbour an extraordinarily high diversity of plants and invertebrates, including Carpathic endemics. In the past decades, intensive sheep grazing has caused a dramatic decrease in biodiversity and even led to eroded soils at many places in the Carpathians. Because of limited food resources,...
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Recent changes in agriculture (intensification or abandonment) have resulted in a critical reduction of semi-natural grasslands in Eastern Europe. Subalpine semi-natural grasslands in Transylvania, Romania, harbour a high diversity of plants and invertebrates, including endemics, and are considered refugia for numerous threatened open-land species....
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Recent changes in agriculture (intensification or abandonment) have resulted in a critical reduction of steppe-like grasslands in Eastern Europe. These grasslands harbor an extraordinarily high diversity of plants and invertebrates, including endemics, and are considered refugia for numerous threatened open-land species. We examined species richnes...

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... To date, 36 global biodiversity hotspots characterized by significant habitat loss have been assigned a high priority for conservation (Myers et al. 2000). Many of them may face significant future threats due to increased anthropogenic pressure and climate change effects (Cremene et al. 2005;Malcolm et al. 2006;Habel et al. 2019). ...
... Alpine grasslands have become a topic of intense discussion worldwide due to their ecological [2,3,7,10,16,22,33] and cultural significance [14,34]. The Western Carpathians and also the South-Eastern Carpathians, where our study area is located, are no exception to this trend [34,35]. ...
... In recent decades, agricultural systems and land usage in Europe have seen a tremendous transition due to interdependent changes in the social, financial, technical, and cultural context [1,2]. Such a transformation in agricultural areas caused landscape and biological alterations that resulted in land abandonment [3,4], which is associated with a loss of insect and plant biodiversity [5,6]. However, the literature also showed that land abandonment could enhance overall heterogeneity and biodiversity at different scales [7]. ...