Biotic communities cannot mitigate the negative effects of grazing on multiple ecosystem functions and services in an arid shrubland

Ecosystem structure, function, and composition in rangelands are negatively affected by livestock grazing

(2016) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2015) David J. Eldridge et al.   Ecohydrology

Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities

(2015) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Managing semi-arid woodlands for carbon storage: Grazing and shrub effects on above- and belowground carbon

(2013) Stefani Daryanto et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2013) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Ploughing and grazing alter the spatial patterning of surface soils in a shrub-encroached woodland

(2013) Stefani Daryanto et al.   GEODERMA

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

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

The influence of environmental factors on biological soil crust: from a community perspective to a species level approach

(2013) Laura Concostrina-Zubiri et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

Rhizosphere stoichiometry: are C : N : P ratios of plants, soils, and enzymes conserved at the plant species-level?

(2013) Colin Bell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of species evenness and dominant species identity on multiple ecosystem functions in model grassland communities

(2013) Kate H. Orwin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Biological soil crust community types differ in key ecological functions

(2013) Nicole Pietrasiak et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Signals of change in tropical savanna woodland vertebrate fauna 5 years after cessation of livestock grazing

(2013) A. S. Kutt et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

(2013) Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Impact of grazing intensity on seasonal variations in soil organic carbon and soil CO2 efflux in two semiarid grasslands in southern Botswana

(2012) A. D. Thomas   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

Characterization of root-nodulating bacteria associated to Prosopis farcta growing in the arid regions of Tunisia

(2011) A. Fterich et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain

(2011) F.T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

(2011) Stefani Daryanto et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Depolymerization and mineralization rates at 12 Mediterranean sites with varying soil N availability. A test for the Schimel and Bennett model

(2010) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Dissociation and metal-binding characteristics of yellow lichen substances suggest a relationship with site preferences of lichens

(2008) Markus Hauck et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Shrub (Prosopis velutina) encroachment in a semidesert grassland: spatial-temporal changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools

(2008) HEATHER L. THROOP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY