1. Once neglected, the role of facilitative interactions in plant communities has received
considerable attention in the last two decades, and is now widely recognized. It is timely to …

In increasingly changing environments, plant species are forced to either adapt to novel
conditions or shift their ranges to track their ecological niches. Those species that can …

Many arid grasslands around the world are affected by shrub encroachment. However, the
transition states of shrub-encroached ecosystems are still poorly known, and the effects of …

草原灌丛化是全球干旱半干旱地区面临的重要生态问题. 灌丛化对草原生态系统结构与功能的
影响较为复杂, 有待于在更广泛的区域开展研究. 该研究在内蒙古锡林郭勒典型草原选择轻度 …

Questions Grazing management influences grassland community dynamics, but few studies
exist on the effects of specific management regimes in subtropical grasslands. Here, we ask …

Complex environments support high biodiversity and diverse microhabitat availability, which
may reduce the intensity of competition among species. Both natural and anthropogenic …

Indirect interactions occur when the effect of one species on another is mediated by a third
species. These interactions occur in most multi‐species assemblages and are diverse in …

Uncontrolled cattle grazing is frequent in protected areas across the tropics but its effect on
habitat structure and biodiversity is poorly known. We used generalized additive models to …

Abstract The Common Agricultural Policy supports the use of free-ranging cattle herds to
control woody encroachment and fire hazards in Europe. There is, however, little empirical …

Proliferation of shrubs at the expense of native forage in pastures has been associated with
large changes in biomass and spatial distribution of forage for grazing livestock, and such …