Grass-Shrub Competition in Arid Lands: An Overlooked Driver in Grassland–Shrubland State Transition?

Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability

(2018) Jennifer A. Rudgers et al.   ECOLOGY

Vegetation response to canopy disturbance and season of burn during oak woodland and savanna restoration in Tennessee

(2017) Andrew L. Vander Yacht et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Impacts of hydraulic redistribution on grass-tree competition vs facilitation in a semi-arid savanna

(2017) Greg A. Barron-Gafford et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seasonality of hydraulic redistribution by trees to grasses and changes in their water-source use that change tree-grass interactions

(2015) K. V. R. Priyadarshini et al.   Ecohydrology

Enhanced precipitation variability decreases grass- and increases shrub-productivity

(2015) Laureano A. Gherardi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An ecosystem services perspective on brush management: research priorities for competing land-use objectives

(2015) Steven R. Archer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes

(2014) Tim G O'Connor et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2013) Justin Dohn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Precipitation legacies in desert grassland primary production occur through previous-year tiller density

(2012) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of experimental rainfall manipulations on Chihuahuan Desert grassland and shrubland plant communities

(2012) Selene Báez et al.   OECOLOGIA

Walter’s two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!

(2012) David Ward et al.   OECOLOGIA

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Slowing Down in Spatially Patterned Ecosystems at the Brink of Collapse

(2011) Vasilis Dakos et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

(2011) Zakary Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Spatial perspectives in state-and-transition models: a missing link to land management?

(2011) Brandon T. Bestelmeyer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Response of dominant grass and shrub species to water manipulation: an ecophysiological basis for shrub invasion in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

(2011) Heather L. Throop et al.   OECOLOGIA

Protection from livestock fails to deter shrub proliferation in a desert landscape with a history of heavy grazing

(2010) Dawn M. Browning et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The Influence of Spatial Patterns of Soil Moisture on the Grass and Shrub Responses to a Summer Rainstorm in a Chihuahuan Desert Ecotone

(2010) William T. Pockman et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Water uptake and hydraulic redistribution across large woody root systems to 20 m depth

(2010) TIMOTHY M. BLEBY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Can kangaroo rat graminivory contribute to the persistence of desertified shrublands?

(2009) G.I.H. Kerley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of wind erosion on the spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in two desert grassland communities

(2008) Junran Li et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

(2008) ALAN K. KNAPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY