Plant community responses to livestock grazing lack conformity across studies, even those
conducted within similar ecosystems. Variability in outcomes can often be traced back to …

Although fencing is an effective restoration strategy used to achieve the global sustainability
of grassland ecosystem, it is unclear from the literature whether fencing results in positive …

Grazing is one of the major anthropogenic driving factors influencing community structure
and ecological function of grasslands. Fencing has been proved to be one of the main …

We document changes in rangeland during a prolonged drought in the arid Karoo.
Rangeland in this arid region is species-rich and dominated by a mixture of long-lived …

Vegetation monitoring of arid and semi-arid environments using remotely sensed vegetation
indices over long periods of time is essential to improve the understanding of the processes …

Sustained heavy grazing is expected to result in degradation and loss of biodiversity in
drylands but long-term experiments which assess the impact of management practises on …

Rangelands of arid ecosystems are driven by internal and external environmental controls.
Grazing pressure is an important anthropogenic driver, but stochastic environmental events …

This study used a fence-line contrast approach to investigate the long-term impact of high
grazing pressure on the vegetation at a site in Namaqualand, South Africa. Forty pairs of …

Abstract Questions The arid Kalahari is prone to desertification as a result of climate change
and/or land use. We analysed the effects of climatic variables and game herbivory on the …

Because vegetation change in arid ecosystems is slow, long-term data are essential to gain
an understanding of how the vegetation responds to short-term, inter-annual variation in …