Grasslands of Northern Europe and the Baltic States
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 onl...
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ftzhawzuerich:oai:digitalcollection.zhaw.ch:11475/19813 2023-07-23T04:17:27+02:00 Grasslands of Northern Europe and the Baltic States Dengler, Jürgen Birge, Traci Bruun, Hans Henrik Rasomavicius, Valerijus Rusina, Solvita 2020-02-29 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12433-9 https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/326678 https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/19813 en eng Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12433-9 doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12433-9 https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/326678 https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/19813 Licence according to publishing contract ISBN:9780128160961 Encyclopedia of the world’s biomes Grassland Northern Europe info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/577 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Buchbeitrag Text 2020 ftzhawzuerich https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12433-9 2023-07-02T23:45:12Z 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. Book Part Arctic Faroe Islands Iceland ZHAW digitalcollection (Repository of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences) Arctic Faroe Islands Norway 689 702 |
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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. |
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