ABSTRACT Widespread, rapid, drought‐, and infestation‐triggered tree mortality is
emerging as a phenomenon affecting forests globally and may be linked to increasing …

Woody plant encroachment has profound impacts on the sustainable management of water
resources in water-limited ecosystems. However, our understanding of the effects of this …

Increases in the abundance or density of woody plants in historically semiarid and arid
grassland ecosystems have important ecological, hydrological, and socioeconomic …

Water‐limited environments occupy about half of the Earth's land surface and contain some
of the fastest growing population centers in the world. Scarcity or variable distributions of …

This book summarizes the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding
global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It originated from …

To understand the coupled water and energy cycles in semiarid environments, we
measured temporal fluctuations of evapotranspiration (ET) and identified key sources of the …

The rapid expansion of western juniper into neighboring plant communities during the past
130 years has caused considerable concern because of increased soil erosion, reduced …

The vegetation of semi‐arid and arid landscapes is often comprised of mixtures of
herbaceous and woody vegetation. Since the early 1900s, shifts from herbaceous to woody …

Across many dryland regions, historically grass‐dominated ecosystems have been
encroached upon by woody‐plant species. In this paper, we compare ecosystem water and …

Key to evaluating the consequences of woody plant encroachment on water and carbon
cycling in semiarid ecosystems is a mechanistic understanding of how biological and non …