Restoration of degraded grasslands, but not invasion by Prosopis juliflora, avoids trade-offs between climate change mitigation and other ecosystem services

Modelling the current fractional cover of an invasive alien plant and drivers of its invasion in a dryland ecosystem

(2019) Hailu Shiferaw et al.   Scientific Reports

Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity

(2019) Yi Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial Evolution of Prosopis Invasion and its Effects on LULC and Livelihoods in Baringo, Kenya

(2019) Purity Rima Mbaabu et al.   Remote Sensing

Implications of land use/land cover dynamics and Prosopis invasion on ecosystem service values in Afar Region, Ethiopia

(2019) Hailu Shiferaw et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning

(2019) Theo Edmund Werner Linders et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecosystem carbon in relation to woody plant encroachment and control: Juniper systems in Oregon, USA

(2019) Mohamed A.B. Abdallah et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The impact of invasive species on social-ecological systems: Relating supply and use of selected provisioning ecosystem services

(2019) Theo EW Linders et al.   Ecosystem Services

Land in balance: The scientific conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality

(2018) Annette L. Cowie et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Digging deeper: A holistic perspective of factors affecting soil organic carbon sequestration in agroecosystems

(2018) Rattan Lal   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A Global Meta-Analysis of Grazing Impacts on Soil Health Indicators

(2018) Ryan C. Byrnes et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Human impacts in African savannas are mediated by plant functional traits

(2018) Colin P. Osborne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The 4 per 1000 goal and soil carbon storage under agroforestry and conservation agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa

(2018) Marc Corbeels et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

(2018) Peter Manning et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Soil Organic Carbon Increases in Semi-Arid Regions while it Decreases in Humid Regions Due to Woody-Plant Encroachment of Grasslands in South Africa

(2018) Admore Mureva et al.   Scientific Reports

Global fire history of grassland biomes

(2018) Berangere A. Leys et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures

(2018) C. O. Oduor et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Soil carbon 4 per mille

(2017) Budiman Minasny et al.   GEODERMA

Can rangelands gain from bush encroachment? Carbon stocks of communal grazing lands invaded by Prosopis juliflora

(2017) Emiru Birhane et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The invasive shrub Prosopis juliflora enhances the malaria parasite transmission capacity of Anopheles mosquitoes: a habitat manipulation experiment

(2017) Gunter C. Muller et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Assessing the Potential of Sentinel-2 and Pléiades Data for the Detection of Prosopis and Vachellia spp. in Kenya

(2017) Wai-Tim Ng et al.   Remote Sensing

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

(2017) Rodolfo C. R. Abreu et al.   Science Advances

Potential of grassland rehabilitation through high density-short duration grazing to sequester atmospheric carbon

(2016) Vincent Chaplot et al.   GEODERMA

Legacy effects of grassland management on soil carbon to depth

(2016) Susan E. Ward et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Belowground Ecosystem Recovery During Grassland Restoration: South African Highveld Compared to US Tallgrass Prairie

(2015) Sara G. Baer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Benefits Derived from Rehabilitating a Degraded Semi-Arid Rangeland in Communal Enclosures, Kenya

(2015) Stephen M. Mureithi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Measurement matters in managing landscape carbon

(2015) Elizabeth A. Law et al.   Ecosystem Services

Land degradation impact on soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks of sub-tropical humid grasslands in South Africa

(2014) Phesheya Dlamini et al.   GEODERMA

Organic carbon stocks and sequestration rates of forest soils in Germany

(2014) Erik Grüneberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Prosopis: a global assessment of the biogeography, benefits, impacts and management of one of the world's worst woody invasive plant taxa

(2014) Ross T. Shackleton et al.   AoB Plants

Plant compensation to grazing and soil carbon dynamics in a tropical grassland

(2014) Mark E. Ritchie   PeerJ

Conflicting values: ecosystem services and invasive tree management

(2013) Ian A. Dickie et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Root growth and morphology of four provenances of a perennial grass (Cenchrus ciliarisL.) in rhizotron chamber

(2013) Lobna Mnif et al.   ACTA BOTANICA GALLICA

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Water relations and the effects of clearing invasive Prosopis trees on groundwater in an arid environment in the Northern Cape, South Africa

(2012) S. Dzikiti et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Trade-offs between ecosystem services: Water and carbon in a biodiversity hotspot

(2010) Ryan A. Chisholm   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis

(2010) AXEL DON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Palynological evidence of climate change and land degradation in the Lake Baringo area, Kenya, East Africa, since AD 1650

(2009) Lawrence M. Kiage et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

(2008) Navin Ramankutty et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

(2008) Z. G. Bai et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT