Community engagement is fundamental to the success of ecosystem restoration; yet, local communities’ willingness to participate depends heavily on their perceptions of the severity of degradation and urgency of restoration. Using a photo‐based survey, we investigated how pastoralists on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau perceive grassland degradation and restoration across ecological systems with differing intrinsic characteristics....

Abandonment of agricultural land has resulted in forest regeneration in species‐rich dry grasslands across European mountain regions and threatens conservation efforts in this vegetation type. To support national conservation strategies, we used a site‐selection algorithm (MARXAN) to find optimum sets of floristic regions (reporting units) that contain grasslands of high conservation priority. We sought optimum sets that would...

Aim We predict fine‐scale species richness patterns at large spatial extents by linking a systematic sample of vascular plants with a multitude of independent environmental descriptors. Location Switzerland, covering 41,244 km 2 in central Europe. Methods Vascular plant species data were collected along transects of 2500‐m length within 1‐km 2 quadrats on a systematic national grid ( n = 354), using a standardized assessment m...