Permanent grasslands cover 34% of the European Union’s agricultural area (Eurostat, 2020) and are vital for human wellbeing as they contribute to a wide variety of essential ecosystem services. There is limited understanding of how land use and management effects the multifunctionality of European permanent grassland, which limits our ability to understand and predict the effects of land use change and management intensification on the provisioning of vital grassland ecosystem services.
The contribution of land use to ecosystem service (ES) delivery depends on environmental conditions but also on management and in some circumstances ES will be competing. We have collected evidence in four different tasks.
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