Plant community composition and structure under short-term grazing exclusion in steppic arid rangelands

Vegetation traits are accurate indicators of how do plants beat the heat in drylands: Diversity and functional traits of vegetation associated with water towers in the Sahara Desert

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Grazing exclosures solely are not the best methods for sustaining alpine grasslands

(2019) Xixi Yao et al.   PeerJ

Effects of different fencing regimes on community structure of degraded desert grasslands on Mu Us desert, China

(2019) Jiankang Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Combined effects of grazing management and climate on semi‐arid steppes: Hysteresis dynamics prevent recovery of degraded rangelands

(2019) Pablo A. Cipriotti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Grassland plant community spatial patterns driven by herbivory intensity

(2018) Ryan F. Limb et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plant demographic and functional responses to management intensification: A long-term study in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2018) Eric Garnier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Beta diversity diminishes in a chronosequence of desertification in a desert steppe

(2018) Zhuangsheng Tang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Effects of short-term grazing exclusion on vegetation and soil in early succession of a Subhumid Mediterranean reclaimed coal mine

(2018) F. Sigcha et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Doomed to collapse: Why Algerian steppe rangelands are overgrazed and some lessons to help land-use transitions

(2018) Jaime Martínez-Valderrama et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Testing rangeland health theory in the Northern Great Plains

(2018) Kurt O. Reinhart et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Diversity and functional traits of spontaneous plant species in Algerian rangelands rehabilitated with prickly pear ( Opuntia ficus - indica L.) plantations

(2018) Souad NEFFAR et al.   TURKISH JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Grazing effect on grasslands escalated by abnormal precipitations in Inner Mongolia

(2018) Maowei Liang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Grazing exclusion—An effective approach for naturally restoring degraded grasslands in Northern China

(2018) Li Wang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Detection of vegetation trends in highly variable environments after grazing exclusion in Mongolia

(2017) Kaoru Kakinuma et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of excluding grazing on the vegetation and soils of degraded sparse-elm grassland in the Horqin Sandy Land, China

(2016) Jiao Tang et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Short-term grazing exclusion from heavy livestock rangelands affects vegetation cover and soil properties in natural ecosystems of southeastern Iran

(2016) Mahdieh Ebrahimi et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Livestock Type is More Crucial Than Grazing Intensity: Traditional Cattle and Sheep Grazing in Short-Grass Steppes

(2016) Edina Tóth et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Old nurses always die: impacts of nurse age on local plant richness

(2016) Fateh Amghar et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Partitioning abundance-based multiple-site dissimilarity into components: balanced variation in abundance and abundance gradients

(2016) Andrés Baselga   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Vegetation and soil property response of short-time fencing in temperate desert of the Hexi Corridor, northwestern China

(2015) Yongyong Zhang et al.   CATENA

An appraisal of eremophyte diversity and plant traits in a rocky desert of the Sahara

(2015) Lyès Bradai et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Long-Term Changes in Plant Life Forms as a Consequence of Grazing Exclusion under Arid Climatic Conditions

(2015) Mohamed Tarhouni et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Effects of Previous Land-Use on Plant Species Composition and Diversity in Mediterranean Forests

(2015) Yacine Kouba et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Soil Chemical Properties and Seasonality on Mycorrhizal Status of Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) Planted in Hot Arid Steppe Rangelands

(2015) S. Neffar et al.   Sains Malaysiana

Unifying Species Diversity, Phylogenetic Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Related Similarity and Differentiation Measures Through Hill Numbers

(2014) Anne Chao et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of afforestation on soil organic carbon and other soil properties

(2014) Selma Yaşar Korkanç   CATENA

Habitat- and rainfall-dependent biodiversity responses to cattle removal in an arid woodland–grassland environment

(2014) Anke S. K. Frank et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The impact of livestock grazing on plant diversity: an analysis across dryland ecosystems and scales in southern Africa

(2014) Wiebke Hanke et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Do subordinate species punch above their weight? Evidence from above- and below-ground

(2014) Pierre Mariotte   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of rainfall pattern on the growth and fecundity of a dominant dune annual in a semi-arid ecosystem

(2014) Ruiru Gao et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Ecologically Appropriate Plant Materials for Restoration Applications

(2013) Thomas A. Jones   BIOSCIENCE

Assessment of vegetative ecological characteristics and the succession process during three decades of grazing exclusion in a continental steppe grassland

(2013) Zhaobin Jing et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

(2013) Santiago Beguería et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Separating the two components of abundance-based dissimilarity: balanced changes in abundance vs. abundance gradients

(2013) Andrés Baselga   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using species combinations in indicator value analyses

(2012) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of grazing exclusion on the spatial variability of subalpine plant communities: A multiscale approach

(2011) Claire Deléglise et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant diversity partitioning in grazed Mediterranean grassland at multiple spatial and temporal scales

(2011) Carly Golodets et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

EXCLOSURE LAND MANAGEMENT FOR RESTORATION OF THE SOILS IN DEGRADED COMMUNAL GRAZING LANDS IN NORTHERN ETHIOPIA

(2011) W. Mekuria et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

Changes in soil properties and vegetation following livestock grazing exclusion in degraded arid environments of South Tunisia

(2009) Kaouthar Jeddi et al.   FLORA

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

30 Years of protection and monitoring of a steppic rangeland undergoing desertification

(2009) H. Slimani et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

(2008) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Comparing Direct Abiotic Amelioration and Facilitation as Tools for Restoration of Semiarid Grasslands

(2008) Yolanda Pueyo et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT