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Overgrazing is one of the main drivers of desertification in drylands, and livestock production is expected to increase in the next decades. The analy...
Read moreTheories of plant succession are poorly developed in arid lands, hindering our understanding of how long communities may take to recover after disturb...
Read more1. Large-scale studies have demonstrated that nitrogen (N) and water (W) availabilities greatly affect terrestrial ecosystems world-wide, and this is ...
Read moreAlthough it is widely assumed that protected areas conserve species that would not survive elsewhere, this assumption is seldom tested. The aim of the...
Read moreBreeding sites of raptors were studied in relation to land-use and edge habitat using 2 different scales in semi-arid Mediterranean landscapes in sout...
Read moreIn the context of global change, the effects of livestock grazing and nitrogen (N) deposition on ecosystem structure and function of grasslands are no...
Read moreWindblown dust, an environmental problem in many disturbed arid lands, has the potential to affect the physiological performance of desert shrubs. Phy...
Read moreInvasive annual grasses alter fire regimes in shrubland ecosystems of the western USA, threatening ecosystem function and fragmenting habitats necessa...
Read moreHistorically, the overlap zones of wild equids were small in Africa but extensive for Przewalski's horses Equus ferus przewalskii and Asiatic wild ass...
Read moreThe current study presents the farmer and community perceptions of the causes and effects of climate change, the barriers to adoption of the resilient...
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