How should we view temperate semi-natural grasslands? Insights from butterflies in Japan

In humid temperate regions, it has been commonly thought that closed forests represent original states and grasslands are unstable human artifacts that persist only as “semi-natural” states. This perspective underrates grasslands, because it makes the recent decline in grassland excusable. A contras...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atsushi Ohwaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989418304335