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Abandonment of agricultural land is widespread in many parts of the world, leading to shrub and tree encroachment. The increase of flammable plant bio...
Read moreUnderstanding the productivity-diversity relationship (PDR) is a key issue in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research, and has important implicati...
Read more1. Ecological restoration can help rehabilitate degraded grasslands and mitigate desertification and wind erosion. Grazing exclusion (GE), a prominent...
Read moreSustainable management of rangelands will become increasingly important as the climate changes, yet rangeland dynamics are still a challenge to drylan...
Read moreThe influence of seed availability, weather and microsite on natural emergence and survival of seedlings was investigated over 38 months in arid shrub...
Read moreA study site comprising six 2.5 ha plots of heather (Calluna vulgaris) moorland which could be viewed from afar was created in NE Scotland. Each plot ...
Read morePlateau pikas Ochotona curzoniae are considered a pest species on the Tibetan Plateau because they compete with livestock for forage and their burrowi...
Read moreVariation in grass height is beneficial to biodiversity conservation in savanna landscapes. Theory predicts that small fires can promote short-grass a...
Read moreThe extent to which the weed Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle) may be controlled by manipulating interspecific competition and herbivory was examined...
Read moreThe long term effects of sheep grazing were investigated by comparing soil chemistry, the distribution of nutrients in vegetation and the nutrient sup...
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