Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

Both arthropods and large grazing herbivores are important components and drivers of
biodiversity in grassland ecosystems, but a synthesis of how arthropod diversity is affected …

The outcomes of ecological restoration are notoriously unpredictable, but we have no
general predictive understanding of this contingency. Management decisions can have …

Grassland insects face some of the most severe declines in species diversity and total
abundance, in part due to agriculture. Livestock grazing is the largest agricultural land use …

Public lands face growing demands to provide ecosystem services, while protecting species
of conservation concern, like insect pollinators. Insect pollinators are critical for the …

Fire is a natural process in grasslands that maintains an open canopy and creates variable
vegetative structure and composition over time. Although there is a wealth of knowledge on …

Grasslands belong to the ecologically most relevant habitats in cultural landscapes, but also
provide high economic value when used as meadows or pastures. Land-use intensification …

Land‐use and land‐cover change associated with agriculture is one of the main drivers of
biodiversity loss. In heavily modified agricultural landscapes, grazing lands may be the only …

Although grasslands often require periodic disturbance to prevent woody plant invasion,
some grassland-obligate butterfly species respond negatively to disturbance agents such as …

Most strategies for limiting global climate change invoke the use of bioenergy, but biofuel
crops vary in climate mitigation potential and in the provision of other ecosystem services …