European permanent grasslands are the main source of livestock fodder and the main hotspot of botanical diversity, but the trade-offs between fodder production and botanical diversity conservation remain debated. This study aims to identify what …
Grasslands are at the heart of multiple expectations on the part of farmers and society. The objective of this study was to assess the services provided by semi-natural grasslands, and the trade-offs between these services. Starting from a survey of …
Assessing trade-offs between forage production and ecological characteristics delivered by grasslands is a growing concern for stakeholders and scientists. We sampled 50 grasslands from the Vosges Mountains (north-eastern France), and measured the …
Ce guide est un outil de médiation. Il comprend : 1. une typologie agro-écologique caractérisant la diversité prairiale et organisant les connaissances pour les rendre accessible, 2. des outils de diagnostic (bilan fourrager, plantes indicatrices). …
Consequences of a decline in pollination function in semi‐natural ecosystems are largely unknown due to variability in pollinator effectiveness, that is, their contribution to pollen deposition alone. While pollination effectiveness has been shown to …
Les surfaces en herbe ont une place majeure dans les agrosystèmes mondiaux. En France, les prairies permanentes sont associées à des propriétés agronomiques, car elles assurent près de la moitié de la production fourragère. Elles sont aussi associées …
Permanent grasslands produce highly diverse ecosystem goods and services, which need to be easily assessed by decision makers. Naturalists and agronomists classify grasslands in different ways to predict ecological, agronomic and environmental …
At the European scale, grassland classifications and policies are mainly based on a phytosociological approach. However, agronomists use other classifications, such as agronomical typologies, indicators, models, measurements of forage yield or …