Grazing Ecology and Forest History

By J. Lawesson. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science

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Ecology of Central European Forests: Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Volume I (2017, background): “Vera (2000) proposed that oak became so widespread after the last ice age because thorny scrub was promoted in the common pastures by low-intensity grazing, which protected the oak seedlings. According to this hypothesis, the low rates of oak regeneration today are mainly caused by the decrease in l”
Why do honey bees dance? (2004, background): “Conversely, Central and Southern Europe were probably not fully covered by forests after the last ice age as traditionally thought (Vera 1996).”
Valuation of Nature in Conservation and Restoration (2001, background): “They paid much more attention to large natural areas and promoted the occurrence of natural processes as drought, flooding and grazing by large herbivores (Vera 2000).”
Reshaping agri-environmental subsidies: From marginal farming to large-scale rewilding (2015, background): “However, many such species also occur in natural open habitats, including forest gaps created by disturbances, grasslands maintained by wild grazers (Vera, 2000), and areas where tree growth and density is limited by climate or other abiotic factors (Thomas, 2009).”
Safe sites for tree regeneration in wooded pastures: A case of associational resistance? (2005, background): “…may find their origin in the Neolithic with the first farming activities of man (Pott & Hüppe 1991), but it has also been hypothesized that domesticated animals have taken over the role of their now-extinct ancestors (e.g. aurox, tarpan) in maintaining similar vegetation patterns (Vera 2000).”
Plant functional traits in studies of vegetation changes in response to grazing and mowing: towards a use of more specific traits (2008, background): “For example, a potential dominant in the oligotrophic species-rich meadows in the White Carpathians is the grass Molinia arundinacea (Klimeš & Klimešová 2002), which is characterized by traits of both groups: rosette shoots, restricted lateral spread, hypogeogenic rhizome, monocyclic shoots and late”
Effects of coppicing on butterfly communities of woodlands (2013, background): “In the past, temperate woodlands had to satisfy a variety of different human requirements (Vera, 2000).”
Habitat use of the endangered butterfly Euphydryas maturna and forestry in Central Europe (2006, background): “…there is an emerging consensus that disturbances such as fires, large animals, water logging and pest outbreaks would have kept European woods more open throughout most of the Holocene than under recent high forest management (Warren & Key, 1991; Vera, 2000; Bakker et al., 2004; Birks, 2005).”
Modelling habitat and spatial distribution of an endangered longhorn beetle - A case study for saproxylic insect conservation (2007, background): “Despite the discussion about the natural landscape structure in Central Europe (closed forest vs. park landscape; see Vera, 2000) there is a distinct man-made component in the potential suitable habitats for our study species.”
Osmoderma eremita (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) in Europe (2005, background): “pasture landscapes and parks, free–standing trees have become scarcer for several reasons, for instance due to ceased removal of underwood (Vera, 2000).”
The Holocene British and Irish ancient forest fossil beetle fauna: implications for forest history, biodiversity and faunal colonisation (2006, background): “…and Rose, 1986; Alexander, 2002), but generated intense discussion and debate amongst conservationists, biologists and palaeoecologists (e.g. Blumer, 2002; Eriksson et al., 2002; Sutherland, 2002; Svenning, 2002; Bradshaw et al., 2003; Kirby, 2003, 2004; Rackham, 2003; Bakker et al., 2004;…”
Quantification of population sizes of large herbivores and their long‐term functional role in ecosystems using dung fungal spores (2016, background): “This policy is based on the premise that before the late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna (Koch & Barnosky 2006; Stuart 2015), large herbivores were important drivers of ecosystem disturbance, function and biodiversity (Vera 2000; Donlan et al. 2005; Corlett 2013; Sandom et al. 2014).”
Shrubs protect oak seedlings against ungulate browsing in temperate broadleaved forests of conservation interest: A field experiment (2012, background): “In addition, thorny and prickly shrub species may provide shelter for certain plants against large grazers in pastures (Rousset and Lepart, 2000; Vera, 2000; van Uytvanck et al., 2008).”
Ecological anachronisms in the recruitment of temperate light‐demanding tree species in wooded pastures (2004, background): “Several Quercus species have been reported to have difficulty in regenerating in current temperate forest reserves (Rackham 1980; Vera 2000; Johnson, Shifley & Rogers 2002; Smit 2002), which generally lack large grazers.”
Evaluating partial cutting in broadleaved temperate forest under strong experimental control: Short-term effects on herbaceous plants (2005, background): “In parts of Europe, oak woodland meadows and pastures were once common (Rackham, 1980; Vera, 2000; Hansson, 2001) but many of them were abandoned during the twentieth century, leading to succession and invasion of other tree species, and finally to closed canopy forest.”
Niche characteristics of Danish woody species as derived from coenoclines (2002, background): “Moreover, forest fragmentation as in Denmark has created extensive forest edges that are optimal for its regeneration (cf. Vera 2000).”
Does a minimal intervention approach threaten the biodiversity of protected areas? A multi-taxa short-term response to intervention in temperate oak-dominated forests (2015, background): “The open structure was maintained by disturbances such as grazing and fires (Adámek et al., 2015; Bengtsson et al., 2000; Niklasson et al., 2010; Rackham, 1998; Szabó, 2010; Vera, 2000).”
Dead wood in semi-natural temperate broadleaved woodland: contribution of coarse and fine dead wood, attached dead wood and stumps (2004, background): “…the other tree species studied, by the fact that it is lower in height (usually less than 6 m) and multi-stemmed, with individual stems rarely exceeding 10–15 cm dbh. Hazel is an early colonising light-demanding species, often disfavoured by continued succession towards high forest (Vera, 2000).”
The effects of edge-interior and understorey-canopy gradients on the distribution of saproxylic beetles in a temperate lowland forest (2013, background): “In reserves, cesation of the traditional managements has lead to full canopy closure, diminution or absence of sunny forest habitats, and exclusion of disturbance dependent, often keystone trees such as oak and fir (Vera, 2000; Vrska et al., 2009).”