Plant invasions can affect fuel characteristics, fire behavior, and fire regimes resulting in
invasive plant-fire cycles and alternative, self-perpetuating states that can be difficult, if not …

Human activities have extensively altered landscapes throughout the world and further
changes are expected in the future. Anthropogenic impacts such as land use change …

Alien grass invasions in arid and semi-arid ecosystems are resulting in grass–fire cycles and
ecosystem-level transformations that severely diminish ecosystem services. Our capacity to …

Global‐scale studies indicate that semiarid regions strongly regulate the terrestrial carbon
sink. However, we lack understanding of how climatic shifts, such as decadal drought …

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

The separate components of evapotranspiration (ET) elucidate the pathways and time
scales over which water is returned to the atmosphere, but ecosystem‐scale measurements …

An understanding of the impacts of exotic plant species on ecosystems is necessary to justify
and guide efforts to limit their spread, restore natives, and plan for conservation. Invasive …

Climate models predict that, in the coming decades, many arid regions will experience
increasingly hot conditions and will be affected more frequently by drought. These regions …

Plant and animal diversity generally increases with increasing environmental heterogeneity.
Here, we test whether this relationship also holds for bacterial communities in soil …

A large fraction of grasslands world‐wide is undergoing a rapid shift from herbaceous to
woody‐plant dominance, while in other parts of the world, the opposite transition from …