ABSTRACT A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of biodiversity for
ecosystem stability and the maintenance of optimal ecosystem functionality. Conservation …

Comparative functional ecology seeks to understand why and how ecological systems and
their components operate differently across environments. Although traditionally used in …

Livestock grazing activities potentially alter ecosystem carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles in
grassland ecosystems. Despite the fact that numerous individual studies and a few meta …

Livestock grazing is an important component and driver of biodiversity in grassland
ecosystems. While numerous studies and a few meta-analyses had been conducted on the …

Maintenance of ecological integrity and biodiversity must be based on well‐grounded
principles of disturbance ecology. However, non‐equilibrium aspects of ecosystems, such …

Changes in livestock grazing regimes are among the most important drivers of species loss
and decrease in functional diversity world‐wide. However, taxonomic and functional …

Natural disturbance emulation (NDE) has been proposed as a general approach to
ecologically sustainable forest management. We reviewed the concepts, theories, and …

This study quantifies the impact of four different grazing regimes (heavy, moderate, light and
ungrazed) on the vegetation dynamics of rangeland ecosystems along the southern …

Understanding the factors governing ecological stability in variable environments is a central
focus of ecology. Functional diversity can stabilize ecosystem function over time if one group …

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) suggests that the peak of species diversity
occurs at intermediate-scale disturbances. The IDH received criticisms because many …