The fertile island effect collapses under extreme overgrazing: evidence from a shrub-encroached grassland

Shrub patches capture tumble plants: potential evidence for a self-reinforcing pattern in a semiarid shrub encroached grassland

(2019) Yuchun Yan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Livestock grazing affects microclimate conditions for decomposition process through changes in vegetation structure in mountain grasslands

(2018) María Victoria Vaieretti et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Grazing modulates soil temperature and moisture in a Eurasian steppe

(2018) Yuchun Yan et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Controls on soil carbon storage from topography and vegetation in a rocky, semi-arid landscapes

(2018) A. Román-Sánchez et al.   GEODERMA

Quantifying the effects of overgrazing on mountainous watershed vegetation dynamics under a changing climate

(2018) Lu Hao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

(2017) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Livestock grazing and aridity reduce the functional diversity of biocrusts

(2017) Max Mallen-Cooper et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Herbivore grazing-or trampling? Trampling effects by a large ungulate in cold high-latitude ecosystems

(2017) Jan Heggenes et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Soil carbon stock in relation to soil properties and landscape position in a forest ecosystem of southern Italy (Calabria region)

(2016) Massimo Conforti et al.   CATENA

Vegetation patches increase wind-blown litter accumulation in a semi-arid steppe of northern China

(2016) Yuchun Yan et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Do grazing intensity and herbivore type affect soil health? Insights from a semi-arid productivity gradient

(2016) David J. Eldridge et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Shrub encroachment alters the spatial patterns of infiltration

(2014) David J. Eldridge et al.   Ecohydrology

What nurse shrubs can do for barren soils: rapid productivity shifts associated with a 40 years ontogenetic gradient

(2014) Jose Antonio Navarro-Cano et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Islands of Fertility: A Byproduct of Grazing?

(2013) Ginger R. H. Allington et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

Preference for different inorganic nitrogen forms among plant functional types and species of the Patagonian steppe

(2013) Laureano A. Gherardi et al.   OECOLOGIA

Quantitative effects of wind erosion on the soil texture and soil nutrients under different vegetation coverage in a semiarid steppe of northern China

(2013) Yuchun Yan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Shrub Hydropedology: Preferential Water Availability to Deep Soil Layer

(2013) Xiao-Yan Li et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Effects of cattle, sheep and deer grazing on soil physical quality and losses of phosphorus and suspended sediment losses in surface runoff

(2011) Fiona Curran Cournane et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effect of vegetation coverage on aeolian dust accumulation in a semiarid steppe of northern China

(2011) Yuchun Yan et al.   CATENA

Spatial and temporal variability of soil properties under Caragana microphylla shrubs in the northwestern Shanxi Loess Plateau, China

(2011) Z.P. Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

From protégé to nurse plant: establishment of thorny shrubs in grazed temperate woodlands

(2011) Christian Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effect of Caragana tibetica nebkhas on sand entrapment and fertile islands in steppe–desert ecotones on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, China

(2011) Pujin Zhang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Restoration of an Ecosystem Function to Revegetation Communities: The Role of Invertebrate Macropores in Enhancing Soil Water Infiltration

(2010) Matthew J. Colloff et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Degradation and small-scale spatial homogenization of topsoils in intensively-grazed steppes of Northern China

(2009) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Effect of grazing intensity on carbon and nitrogen in soil and vegetation in a meadow steppe in Inner Mongolia

(2008) Guodong Han et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT