Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime

Response of community-aggregated plant functional traits along grazing gradients: insights from African semi-arid grasslands

(2014) Cristian A. Moreno García et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa

(2014) Sally E. Koerner et al.   ECOLOGY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Are There Consistent Grazing Indicators in Drylands? Testing Plant Functional Types of Various Complexity in South Africa’s Grassland and Savanna Biomes

(2014) Anja Linstädter et al.   PLoS One

Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

(2014) Katja Tielbörger et al.   Nature Communications

Extension of Nakagawa & Schielzeth'sR2GLMMto random slopes models

(2014) Paul C.D. Johnson   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Anticipating changes in variability of grassland production due to increases in interannual precipitation variability

(2014) Joanna S. Hsu et al.   Ecosphere

Convergence between ANPP estimation methods in grasslands — A practical solution to the comparability dilemma

(2013) Jan Christian Ruppert et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

On the dimensionality of ecological stability

(2013) Ian Donohue et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How much climate change can pastoral livelihoods tolerate? Modelling rangeland use and evaluating risk

(2013) Romina Martin et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The importance of being reliable – Local ecological knowledge and management of forage plants in a dryland pastoral system (Morocco)

(2013) A. Linstädter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Response of grassland biomass production to simulated climate change and clipping along an elevation gradient

(2013) Cameron N. Carlyle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications

(2012) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   Earth Interactions

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

(2012) Lauchlan H Fraser et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability

(2012) Christopher P.O. Reyer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shifting thresholds and changing degradation patterns: climate change effects on the simulated long-term response of a semi-arid savanna to grazing

(2012) Dirk Lohmann et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis of ANPP and rain-use efficiency confirms indicative value for degradation and supports non-linear response along precipitation gradients in drylands

(2012) Jan C. Ruppert et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Unexpected patterns of sensitivity to drought in three semi-arid grasslands

(2012) Karie Cherwin et al.   OECOLOGIA

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Grassland Resistance and Resilience after Drought Depends on Management Intensity and Species Richness

(2012) Anja Vogel et al.   PLoS One

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility

(2012) Sasha C. Reed et al.   Nature Climate Change

Aridity and grazing as convergent selective forces: an experiment with an Arid Chaco bunchgrass

(2010) R. Emiliano Quiroga et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A critique for meta-analyses and the productivity– diversity relationship

(2010) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term degradation of Sahelian rangeland detected by 27 years of field study in Senegal

(2010) Sabine Miehe et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Coexistence in Disturbance‐Prone Communities: How a Resistance‐Resilience Trade‐Off Generates Coexistence via the Storage Effect

(2009) Adam D. Miller et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Impact of drought on vegetation dynamics of the Mongolian steppe: A field experiment

(2009) M. Shinoda et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Grass mortality in semi-arid savanna: The role of fire, competition and self-shading

(2009) Julia Zimmermann et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Drought, change and resilience in South Africa's arid and semi-arid rangelands

(2009) Susanne Vetter   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Water-deficit stress-induced anatomical changes in higher plants

(2008) Hong-Bo Shao et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Recruitment filters in a perennial grassland: the interactive roles of fire, competitors, moisture and seed availability

(2008) Julia Zimmermann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Managing arid zone natural resources in Australia for spatial and temporal variability – an approach from first principles

(2008) Mark Stafford Smith et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL