Elena Preda

TL;DR: In this paper, a review examines climate change effects on groundwater and dependent ecosystems, focusing on the impacts of changes to groundwater on GDE biodiversity and future threats posed by climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of groundwater in surface ecosystems is not fully understood and the status and baseline of different types of groundwater dependent ecosystems are discussed, with particular emphasis on past evidence of environmental change and potential thresholds and threats in GDEs in various parts of Europe with different land use, climate and geology.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical framework is proposed to make ecosystem services (ES) trade-off research more relevant for spatial planning, which puts stakeholders, their land-use/management choices, their impact on ES and responses at the centre.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential litter decomposition was investigated by using standardized substrates (Rooibos and Green tea) for comparison of litter mass loss at 336 sites (ranging from

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the ecosystem services concept is already embedded in recent EU (environmentally-related) policies, such as the Biodiversity Strategy 2020 and the Invasive Alien Species Regulation.