The ecosystems along the border between the United States and Mexico are at increasing
risk to wildfire due to interactions among climate, land-use, and fuel loads. A wide range of …

Droughts in the southwest United States have led to major forest and grassland die‐off
events in recent decades, suggesting plant community and ecosystem shifts are imminent as …

Aim Grasslands cover a third of Earth's landmass and provide critical ecosystem services.
Anticipating how perennial C3 (cool‐season) and C4 (warm‐season) grasses respond to …

Droughts have increased globally in the twenty-first century and are expected to become
more extreme and widespread in the future. Assessments of how drought affects plants and …

Primary production in dryland ecosystems is limited by water availability and projected to be
strongly affected by future shifts in seasonal precipitation. Warm‐season precipitation …

Determining the driving climatic factors at critical periods and potential legacy effects is
crucial for grassland productivity predictions on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). However …

The ecological responses of vegetation to climatic variables along a spatial gradient can be
used as guidelines for chronic ecosystem response predictions under global climate …

The grassland in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is one of the largest and most
biodiverse mountain grassland types in the world, and its ecosystem service functions have …

High interannual variability in production occurs in many semiarid rangelands, including the
perennial-dominated sagebrush steppe, in response to variable weather conditions …

Assessing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 15.3. 1, which refers to the
proportion of degraded land to total land area, and analysing its status and drivers is …