<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peringer, Alexander</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gillet, François</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rosenthal, Gert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stoicescu, Ioana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pătru-Stupariu, Ileana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stupariu, Mihai-Sorin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Buttler, Alexandre</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Landscape-scale simulation experiments test Romanian and Swiss management guidelines for mountain pasture-woodland habitat diversity</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecological Modelling</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecological Modelling</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jan-06-2016</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380016300795</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">330</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41 - 49</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Distinct guidelines have been proposed in Romania and Switzerland for the management of pasture-woodlands that either focused on the regulation of grazing pressure (Romanian production perspective) or overall tree cover (Swiss conservation perspective). However, the landscape structural diversity and the cover of forest-grassland ecotones, which are both crucial for nature conservation value, were not explicitly considered.&lt;br /&gt;
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We aimed to compare the country-specific management guidelines regarding their efficiency for the conservation of the structurally diverse forest-grassland mosaics in the light of recent land-use and climate change.&lt;br /&gt;
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In strategic simulation experiments using the process-based model of pasture-woodland ecosystems WoodPaM, we analyzed the relationships among drivers for the formation of mosaic patterns (grazing intensity, climate change) and the resulting landscape properties (tree cover, forest-grassland ecotones, mosaic structure) during the past until today (2000 AD).&lt;br /&gt;
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The results showed that tree canopy densification following recent climate warming is likely to trigger landscape structural shifts. Medium grazing pressure promoted the development of the full range of pasture-woodland habitats and is therefore confirmed as a management strategy that balances agronomic demands and nature conservation value. Tree cover is rejected as a criteria to monitor pasture-woodland conservation status, because its relationship to landscape structural diversity and to the cover of forest-grassland ecotones did not hold for changing climate.&lt;br /&gt;
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Our results suggest &amp;ldquo;experimental-retrospective&amp;rdquo; analysis as a useful tool to test conclusions from expert knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;
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