Plant community change in three Mongolian steppe ecosystems 1994-2013: applications to state-and-transition models

Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature

(2016) Yun Wang et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Thresholds and gradients in a semi-arid grassland: long-term grazing treatments induce slow, continuous and reversible vegetation change

(2016) Lauren M. Porensky et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A conceptual model for changes in floristic diversity under grazing in semi-arid Patagonia using the State and Transition framework

(2016) Gabriel Oliva et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Synergistic effects of climate change and grazing on net primary production of Mongolian grasslands

(2016) Shree R. S. Dangal et al.   Ecosphere

Trend analysis of MODIS NDVI time series for detecting land degradation and regeneration in Mongolia

(2015) Sandra Eckert et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Mongolian rangelands at a tipping point? Biomass and cover are stable but composition shifts and richness declines after 20 years of grazing and increasing temperatures

(2015) J. Khishigbayar et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Short-term manipulation of precipitation in Mongolian steppe shows vegetation influenced more by timing than amount of rainfall

(2015) Laura A. Spence et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Selective grazing and seasonal precipitation play key roles in shaping plant community structure of semi-arid grasslands

(2015) Hongwei Wan et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Differentiating anthropogenic modification and precipitation-driven change on vegetation productivity on the Mongolian Plateau

(2015) Ranjeet John et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Impact of Precipitation Patterns on Biomass and Species Richness of Annuals in a Dry Steppe

(2015) Hong Yan et al.   PLoS One

Plant Species Richness, Evenness, and Composition along Environmental Gradients in an Alpine Meadow Grazing Ecosystem in Central Tibet, China

(2014) Tsechoe Dorji et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Long-term vegetation dynamics driven by climatic variations in the Inner Mongolia grassland: findings from 30-year monitoring

(2014) Zhiyong Li et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Climate change and grazing interact to alter flowering patterns in the Mongolian steppe

(2014) Laura A. Spence et al.   OECOLOGIA

Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia

(2014) N. Pederson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vegetation in a Post-Ecological Threshold State May Not Recover after Short-Term Livestock Exclusion in Mongolian Rangelands

(2013) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Tools for Resilience Management: Multidisciplinary Development of State-and-Transition Models for Northwest Colorado

(2013) Emily J. Kachergis et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Satellite observed widespread decline in Mongolian grasslands largely due to overgrazing

(2013) Thomas Hilker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of grazing on plant community structure and aboveground net primary production of semiarid boreal steppe of northern Mongolia

(2013) Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

Refining thresholds in coupled fire-vegetation models to improve management of encroaching woody plants in grasslands

(2013) Dirac Twidwell et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Changing Climate and Overgrazing Are Decimating Mongolian Steppes

(2013) Yi Y. Liu et al.   PLoS One

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

(2012) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differences in Plant Species Composition as Evidence of Alternate States in the Sagebrush Steppe

(2012) Emily Kachergis et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Empirical assessment of state-and-transition models with a long-term vegetation record from the Sonoran Desert

(2011) Sumanta Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Addressing the removal of rare species in multivariate bioassessments: The impact of methodological choices

(2011) Mark S. Poos et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Vulnerability of the northern Mongolian steppe to climate change: insights from flower production and phenology

(2011) Pierre Liancourt et al.   ECOLOGY

Impact of rainfall variability and grazing pressure on plant diversity in Mongolian grasslands

(2011) Y. Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Changes in the large-scale distribution of plants: extinction, colonisation and the effects of climate

(2011) Simon W. Doxford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network monthly mean temperature data set, version 3

(2011) Jay H. Lawrimore et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Using Participatory Workshops to Integrate State-and-Transition Models Created With Local Knowledge and Ecological Data

(2011) Corrine Noel Knapp et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Alternative states of a semiarid grassland ecosystem: implications for ecosystem services

(2011) Mark E. Miller et al.   Ecosphere

Effects of large herbivore exclusion on southern Mongolian desert steppes

(2010) Karsten Wesche et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecosystemic structural-functional approach of the state and transition model

(2010) Dardo R. López et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Assisted colonization: Integrating conservation strategies in the face of climate change

(2010) Scott R. Loss et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Driving environmental factors and the role of grazing in grassland communities: A comparative study along an altitudinal gradient in Western Mongolia

(2010) A. Zemmrich et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Estimation of grazing intensity along grazing gradients – the bias of nonlinearity

(2010) Michael Manthey et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

(2010) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Indicator species and functional groups as predictors of proximity to ecological thresholds in Mongolian rangelands

(2010) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

A state-and-transition approach to alpine grasslands under abandonment

(2010) S Targetti et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Threshold models in restoration and conservation: a developing framework

(2009) Katharine N. Suding et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Recommendations for Development of Resilience-Based State-and-Transition Models

(2008) D.D. Briske et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management