1. An example: Grassland Habitats

2. Grassland Habitats
53 habitats

3. Grassland Habitats 53 habitats
Dominated by grasses, other herbs & sometimes with bryophytes and lichens

4. Grassland Habitats 53 habitats
Dominated by grasses, other herbs & sometimes with bryophytes and lichens
Derived mostly from by forest-clearance and maintained by grazing, mowing, burning

5. Grassland Habitats 53 habitats
Dominated by grasses, other herbs & sometimes with bryophytes and lichens
Derived mostly from by forest-clearance and maintained by grazing, mowing, burning
Vary according to regional climate, soil reaction, nutrient status & water content

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7. Grassland Habitats

8. Grassland Habitats

9. Grassland Habitats

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13. Grassland Habitats

14. Grassland Habitats

15. Grassland Habitats 53 habitats
Dominated by grasses, other herbs & sometimes with bryophytes and lichens
Derived mostly from forest and maintained by grazing, mowing, burning
Also includes heavy metal grasslands, tall herb vegetation, forest fringes & parklands

16. Grassland Habitats

17. Grassland Habitats
Major threats (particularly for pastures and meadows):

18. Grassland Habitats
Major threats (particularly for pastures and meadows):
Agricultural ‘improvement’ aimed at higher productivity: fertilisers, intensive stock management & forage harvesting

19. Grassland Habitats
Major threats (particularly for pastures and meadows):
Agricultural ‘improvement’ aimed at higher productivity: fertilisers, intensive stock management & forage harvesting
Abandonment of traditional pastoral agriculture with reversion to scrub & forest

20. Grassland Habitats
Other threats:

21. Grassland Habitats Other threats:
Particularly for wet grasslands - modifications of hydrographic functions, by catchment management, flood control, water abstraction

22. Grassland Habitats Other threats:
Particularly for wet grasslands - modifications of hydrographic functions, by catchment management, flood control, water abstraction
Particularly for high mountain grasslands - climate change, particularly milder winters, reduced snow-lie, longer growing season

23. Grassland Habitats
Half of European grasslands are threatened to some degree, one of the highest percentage of all seven major terrestrial/freshwater habitat groups

24. Grassland Habitats
Half of European grasslands are threatened to some degree

25. Grassland Habitats 4 Critically threatened grassland habitats
E1.1a Pannonian and Pontic sandy steppe E1.5e Madeiran oromediterranean siliceous grasslands E1.9b Inland sanddrift and dune with siliceous grassland
E7.2 Hemiboreal and Boreal wooded pasture and meadow
have either a very small natural extent or a dramatic recent or historic decline

26. Grassland Habitats 8 Endangered grassland habitats
E1.5c Cyrno-Sardean oromediterranean siliceous dry grassland E1.9a Oceanic to sub-continental inland sand grassland on dry acid and neutral soils E1.B Heavy-metal grassland E1.F Azorean open dry, acid to neutral grassland E3.4a Moist or wet mesotrophic to eutrophic hay meadow E3.4b Moist or wet mesotrophic to eutrophic pasture E3.5 Non-Mediterranean moist or wet oligotrophic grassland E6.3 Temperate inland salt marsh
have either a very large recent or historic decline

27. Grassland Habitats
13 Vulnerable grasslands have suffered a recent large decline in extent
5 Near Threatened grasslands have suffered a large decline in extent or substantial reduction in quality
17 grasslands are Least concern and 2 grasslands are Data Deficient

28. Grassland Habitats
E1.9 Inland sand grasslands and E2 Mesic pastures and meadows
are notably faced with threats at various levels under different criteria

29. Grassland Habitats
Many grasslands are differently distributed within similar overall ranges

30. Grassland Habitats
Many grasslands are differently distributed within similar overall ranges
Many grasslands are differently threatened in different parts of their range

31. Grassland Habitats
Many grasslands are differently distributed within similar overall ranges
Many grasslands are differently threatened in different parts of their range
Many grasslands have sub-types which are differently threatened

32. Grassland Habitats
Many grasslands are differently distributed within similar overall ranges
Many grasslands are differently threatened in different parts of their range
Many grasslands have sub-types which are differently threatened
Some grasslands contain species more highly threatened that the habitat itself

33. Grassland Habitats
There is no assessment of habitat dispersal or mean stand size

34. Grassland Habitats
There is no assessment of habitat dispersal or mean stand size
Assessment of habitat quality is especially problematic (quantitative thresholds)

35. Grassland Habitats
There is no assessment of habitat dispersal or mean stand size
Assessment of habitat quality is especially problematic (quantitative thresholds)
There is no assessment of the cultural values of habitats

36. Grassland Habitats
There is no assessment of dispersal or mean stand size
Assessment of quality is especially problematic
There is no assessment of the cultural values of habitats
Habitats with similar degree of threatenedness vary in their recoverability