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

Agroecology promises a third way between common global agriculture tradeoffs such as
food production and nature conservation, environmental sustainability and ecosystem …

The Río de la Plata Grasslands (RPG) region is the largest area of the temperate humid and
sub-humid grasslands biome in South America and one of the largest in the world. The …

The short revisit times afforded by recently-deployed optical satellite sensors that acquire 3–
30 m resolution imagery provide new opportunities to study seasonal vegetation dynamics …

New livestock production models need to simultaneously meet the increasing global
demand for meat and preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services. Since the 16th century …

Grasslands, in particular managed pastures and rangelands, are widespread, covering
approximately 40%(52 million km²) of the Earth's land surface. They are dominated by …

Widespread land degradation has strengthened the urgent need to restore overgrazing
grasslands. China has implemented the program 'Returning Grazing Land to …

Aims We offer a first classification of South Brazilian grasslands (Campos Sulinos) based on
quantitative vegetation data and describing grassland types in terms of dominant and …

Questions Does the magnitude of grazing‐induced changes in species composition vary
with habitat productivity? How does the sign and magnitude of grazing effects on species …

Loss of megafauna, an aspect of defaunation, can precipitate many ecological changes over
short time scales. We examine whether megafauna loss can also explain features of lasting …