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Vegetation-microclimate feedbacks in woodland-grassland ecotones

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Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

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Community traitscape of foliar nitrogen isotopes reveals N availability patterns in a tallgrass prairie

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A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

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Increased tree densities in South African savannas: >50 years of data suggests CO2 as a driver

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

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Maintenance of C sinks sustains enhanced C assimilation during long-term exposure to elevated [CO2] in Mojave Desert shrubs

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The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

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Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie

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Drought stress ecophysiology of shrub and grass functional groups on opposing slope aspects of a temperate grassland valley

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Biogeography of woody encroachment: why is mesquite excluded from shallow soils?

(2009) Kathleen D. Eggemeyer et al.   Ecohydrology

Woody Plant Encroachment by Juniperus virginiana in a Mesic Native Grassland Promotes Rapid Carbon and Nitrogen Accrual

(2008) Duncan C. McKinley et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

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Variation in woody plant δ13C along a topoedaphic gradient in a subtropical savanna parkland

(2008) Edith Bai et al.   OECOLOGIA

Seasonal changes in depth of water uptake for encroaching trees Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa and two dominant C4 grasses in a semiarid grassland

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