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

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

The responses of herbaceous vegetation on upland steppe of Yellowstone National Park's N. winter rangeland to winter grazing by elk were investigated ...

Place names are an important but vanishing part of cultural diversity, and their relevance for environmental sciences is increasingly acknowledged. St...

In studies on the dynamics of leaf water status and stomatal behaviour, B. gracilis and A. smithii [Elymus smithii] showed remarkably different stomat...

Grazing contributes substantially to grassland degradation worldwide and may alter soil biota and function. However, the effects of grassland type, gr...

Invasions by exotic annual grasses (EAGs) are replacing native perennials in semiarid areas globally, including the vast sagebrush-steppe rangelands o...

Lions Panthera leo kill livestock in the pastoral steppe of East Africa. The subsequent lethal retaliation by livestock owners has helped reduce lion ...

Temporal variability in habitat suitability has important conservation and ecological implications. In grasslands, changes in resource availability ca...

Exotic deer (mostly Cervus elaphus and Dama dama) are abundant in the Andean forests and adjacent Patagonian steppe in the Provinces of Neuquén and Ri...