Melinda Halassy

TL;DR: A quantitative synthesis of longterm biodiversity trends across Europe is reported, showing how, despite overall increase in biodiversity metric and stability in abundance, trends differ between regions, ecosystem types, and taxa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the predictability of restoration trajectories under changing environmental conditions, the application of ecological theories to restoration practice, the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and human inter- ventions in ecosystem recovery, and the social context of ecological restoration.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of nitrogen immobilization as a means of accelerating the recovery of an endemic open sandy grassland (Festucetum vaginatae danubiale) on old fields in the Great Hungarian Plain was designed.

TL;DR: The finding that open grassland communities recovered on these old-field sites, but were accompanied by stable alien components, suggests that these communities could be regarded as a new combination of species, or novel communities, with a considerably high conservation value.

TL;DR: The results do not support recruitment to be the limiting factor in recently abandoned fields, because grassland species that occurred in the seed bank were also present in the vegetation.