Green alder ( Alnus viridis ) is a shrub species that has expanded over former pastures in Central Europe due to land abandonment, leading negative agri-environmental impacts, such as reduction forage yield and quality an increase nitrate leaching. Robust livestock breeds Highland cattle could be used control A. encroachment. The objectives of this study were investigate the impact encroachment...

The status and drivers of soil-available nutrients in plant-recovered soils are not fully understood, limiting our ability to explore the role soil geochemical cycling ecosystem sustainability. Here, we combined spatial distribution chemical aggregate properties from six types (subalpine meadow soil, dark brown yellow-brown cinnamon soil) three horizons (a leaching horizon, sediment parent mate...

Climate change was already shown to increase species numbers in high elevations. In contrast, grazing might interfere with climate effects. To disentangle both the effects remains a major challenge of alpine ecology. The present study investigated on diversity along an elevation gradient Austrian Central Alps. We aimed answer following questions: How do and frequency subalpine–alpine–subnival p...