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Norway's species-rich grasslands in decline: New monitoring reveals alarming trends

  • February 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Norway's species-rich grasslands in decline: New monitoring reveals alarming trends
A new national monitoring program provides, for the first time, area-representative knowledge of semi-natural grasslands in Norway. The results show that this habitat covers a larger area than previously mapped, but that most grasslands are abandoned and in the process of becoming encroached upon.

Originally published at Phys.org

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