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SUBMITTER: Auffret AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6110833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Auffret Alistair G AG Kimberley Adam A Plue Jan J Waldén Emelie E
Nature communications 20180827 1
Habitat loss through land-use change is the most pressing threat to biodiversity worldwide. European semi-natural grasslands have suffered an ongoing decline since the early twentieth century, but we have limited knowledge of how grassland loss has affected biodiversity across large spatial scales. We quantify land-use change over 50-70 years across a 175,000 km<sup>2</sup> super-region in southern Sweden, identifying a widespread loss of open cover and a homogenisation of landscape structure, a ...[more]