Grassland Ecosystem Services: Research Advances and Future Directions for Sustainability: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 308
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grassland ecology and management; grassland biodiversity; grassland condition and health; management of protected areas; agroforestry systems
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Interests: extensive grazing; autochthonous livestock breeds; wet grassland and reedbed management; grassland management plan; biodiversity; protected areas of the EU Natura 2000 network
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Land entitled “Grassland Ecosystem Services: Research Advances and Future Directions for Sustainability: 3rd Edition”.
Grasslands are of paramount importance for the creation of ecosystem services, i.e., supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. Grasslands sustain economies, from the local to the national levels, in human societies and nature by forming numerous habitat types where exceptional elements of biodiversity flourish. They play a major role in providing high-quality forage for both livestock and wild animals; they support communities of insects with major roles in the pollination process and the recycling of nutrients and organic matter; they sustain apiculture and contribute to the prevention of erosion processes; they contribute to the maintenance of the water cycle. They contribute to climate change mitigation and are large carbon storage tanks. Given their importance, a number of scientific works are scanning, searching for, and promoting structural and functional elements of grasslands in disciplines ranging from the political to the economic and ecological.
From recent scientific developments to future directions, this Special Issue (SI) aims at presenting the world’s grasslands within the framework of sustainable ecosystem management. The theme of the SI fits into the scope of the Land journal, since it seeks to bring to the light the research advances in grassland science and management and, more specifically, the human-made impacts on the creation of ecosystem services related to grasslands.
Suggested themes and article types for submissions include: grassland abandonment, grassland types, uses, management, conservation and restoration, impact of climate change on grassland ecology, grassland condition and health, grassland ecosystem services (i.e., supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural) and issues related to the monitoring, biodiversity, water provision and hydrology of grasslands.
Prof. Dr. Michael Vrahnakis
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yannis (Ioannis) Kazoglou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- grassland abandonment
- grassland ecology
- grassland management
- grassland biodiversity
- grassland hydrology
- issues and threats
- supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural grassland ecosystem services
- grass cultivation and management
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