Gabri and Petr, together with our partners from the GRACE project, and with many other European botanists have published a new paper in Ecology Letters.

The paper shows how specied diversity of plants in local communities changed over the past 60 years, in four distinct environments (forests, grasslands, scrub, and wetlands), and in seven major biogeographic regions.

All of this can be explored in a lovely online interactive map. Check it out!

This analysis is based on hundreds of thousands of botanical plots, it is independently validated, and given its sheer volume of data and large geographic extent, it is among the most comprehensive assessments of what is going on with species richness of European vegetation so far.