Do shrubs reduce the adverse effects of grazing on soil properties?

Islands of Fertility: A Byproduct of Grazing?

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

Do changes in grazing pressure and the degree of shrub encroachment alter the effects of individual shrubs on understorey plant communities and soil function?

(2013) Santiago Soliveres et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Spatial patterns of infiltration vary with disturbance in a shrub-encroached woodland

(2013) Stefani Daryanto et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Grazing dampens the positive effects of shrub encroachment on ecosystem functions in a semi-arid woodland

(2013) David J. Eldridge et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Conditions favouringBromus tectorumdominance of endangered sagebrush steppe ecosystems

(2013) Michael D. Reisner et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Controls of biological soil crust cover and composition shift with succession in sagebrush shrub-steppe

(2013) E. Dettweiler-Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Hydrology in a patterned landscape is co-engineered by soil-disturbing animals and biological crusts

(2013) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Positive effects of shrubs on plant species diversity do not change along a gradient in grazing pressure in an arid shrubland

(2012) Kimberley S.C. Howard et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Landform and vegetation patch type moderate the effects of grazing-induced disturbance on carbon and nitrogen pools in a semi-arid woodland

(2012) Jane G. Smith et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie

(2011) W.R. Teague et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Soil nutrients under shrub hummocks and debris mounds two decades after ploughing

(2011) Stefani Daryanto et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Abiotic effects predominate under prolonged livestock-induced disturbance

(2010) DAVID J. ELDRIDGE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems

(2010) James B. Grace et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Interactive Effects of Three Ecosystem Engineers on Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grassland

(2010) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Invasive native scrub and soil condition in semi-arid south-eastern Australia

(2009) Matthew Tighe et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Indices based on surface indicators predict soil functioning in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

(2009) Gregory S. Okin et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Does the strength of facilitation by nurse shrubs depend on grazing resistance of tree saplings?

(2008) Charlotte Vandenberghe et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Grazing-induced spatial variability of soil bulk density and content of moisture, organic carbon and calcium carbonate in a semi-arid rangeland

(2008) Ilan Stavi et al.   CATENA

Small mammal herbivory: Feedbacks that help maintain desertified ecosystems

(2008) G.A. Roth et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Alteration of ecosystem structure by a burrowing herbivore, the plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus)

(2008) Diego Villarreal et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Infiltration, Runoff, and Sediment Yield in Response to Western Juniper Encroachment in Southeast Oregon

(2008) Steven L. Petersen et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management