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ArticleGlobal change biology2025

One Century of Change: Stronger Diversity Decline in Lowland Than in Mountain Grasslands in Central Europe.

Stefan Widmer, Susanne Riedel, Manuel Babbi, Felix Herzog, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Michael Kessler, Jürgen Dengler

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Article in Global change biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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7 authors.

Stefan WidmerVegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4920-5205
Susanne RiedelDepartment of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0471-2307
Manuel BabbiVegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland.
Felix HerzogAgricultural Landscapes and Biodiversity, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9472-4891
Thomas WohlgemuthSwiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4623-0894
Michael KesslerDepartment of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4612-9937
Jürgen DenglerVegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3221-660X

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 197641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative long-term assessments of the extent and direction of biodiversity change due to anthropogenic environmental change are challenging because representative baseline data older than a few decades are very rare. This is also the case for grasslands in temperate Europe, which can harbour high species diversity at small spatial scales, but have undergone strong and varied changes, particularly in relation to the agricultural intensification that peaked in the middle of the last century. We resampled 416 historical vegetation records (originally sampled between 1884 and 1931) of 0.09 m

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AltitudeBiodiversityGrasslandAgricultureClimate ChangeCyperaceaeEuropean Alpine RegionHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyPhylogenyPoaceaeSwitzerlandbiodiversity changeCentral Europeclimate changeelevational gradienteutrophicationgrasslandland use changelong‐term vegetation dynamicsSwitzerlandvegetation resurvey

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PMCPMC12492779

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