Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

Population stratification is a useful approach for a better understanding of complex
biological problems in human health and wellbeing. The proposal that such stratification …

A global network of long‐term carbon and water flux measurements has existed since the
late 1990s. With its representative sampling of the terrestrial biosphere's climate and …

Woody vegetation in grasslands and savannas has increased worldwide over the past 100–
200 years. This phenomenon of “woody plant encroachment”(WPE) has been documented …

Tropical savannas are a globally extensive biome prone to rapid vegetation change in
response to changing environmental conditions. Via a meta‐analysis, we quantified …

Quantile regression constitutes a family of statistical techniques intended to estimate and
draw inferences about conditional quantile functions. Median regression as introduced in …

As the lifetime of regional flux networks approach twenty years, there is a growing number of
papers that have published long term records (5 years or more) of net carbon fluxes …

This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of'open ecosystems', which
include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support …

Savannas cover a fifth of the land surface and contribute a third of terrestrial net primary
production, accounting for three-quarters of global area burned and more than half of global …

Tropical grassy biomes (TGBs) are globally extensive, provide critical ecosystem services,
and influence the earth–atmosphere system. Yet, globally applied biome definitions ignore …