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Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

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Directional climate change and potential reversal of desertification in arid and semiarid ecosystems

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Review of small mammal trophic structure in drylands: resource availability, use, and disturbance

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Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

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Facilitation drives 65 years of vegetation change in the Sonoran Desert

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Contingent Conclusions: Year of Initiation Influences Ecological Field Experiments, but Temporal Replication is Rare

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Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

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Soil-vegetation-climate interactions in arid landscapes: Effects of the North American monsoon on grass recruitment

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Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Plant Productivity and Tissue Die-Back are Modified by Community Composition

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