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Restoration of novel ecosystems to a historical benchmark may not always be possible or advisable. Novel ecosystems may be managed by targeting specif...

During the last century, many plant species typical of heathland and nutrient-poor acidic grasslands have become rare whereas others have remained com...

Field trials were conducted in Mackenzie Country, South Island, New Zealand in 1975-82 at a low fertility site dominated by Festuca novae-zelandiae wi...

Pollinating insects provide economic value by improving crop yield. They are also functionally and culturally important across ecosystems outside of c...

Fires undermine efforts to restore degraded forests in the wet tropics and subtropics. Grasslands and shrublands established after fires are more fire...

Net ecosystem gas exchange (NEE), a balance between gross ecosystem primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER), is an important indicat...

Annual-grass invasions are transforming desert ecosystems in ways that affect ecosystem carbon (C) balance, but previous studies do not agree on the p...

In some ecosystems there is a positive feedback between forage quality and grazing intensity. This involves three components of plant tolerance to gra...

Dryland soils consistently exhibit a low capacity for the long-term accumulation and storage of organic matter, which has been primarily attributed to...

Grasslands provide essential floral resources for both managed and wild pollinators. However, grassland flowers in remaining native landscapes are thr...