Understanding dryland dynamics is essential to predict future climate trajectories. However,
there remains large uncertainty on the extent to which drylands are expanding or greening …

Purpose Soil moisture is a key ecohydrological variable in the soil–plant–atmosphere
systems; understanding soil moisture–plant interactions is at the core of ecohydrology …

Determining the factors that influence the distribution of woody vegetation cover and
resolving the sensitivity of woody vegetation cover to shifts in environmental forcing are …

The difficulties in predicting whole catchment water balance from observations at patch
scales motivate a search for theories that can account for the complexity of interactions in …

Herbivores influence the structure and composition of terrestrial plant communities.
However, responses of plant communities to herbivory are variable and depend on …

Shifts in landscape heterogeneity and climate can influence animal movement in ways that
profoundly alter disease transmission. Water sources that are foci of animal activity have …

Drylands are important ecosystems that are facing severe challenges under a changing
climate. The relationships between soil moisture and vegetation have garnered international …

Kenyan river basin governance underwent a pioneering reform in the Water Act of 2002,
which established new community water-management institutions. This article focuses on …

In drylands across the globe, natural resource-dependent societies are experiencing rapid
rates of environmental change as well as transforming social, economic, and political …

Applications of DNA barcoding include identifying species, inferring ecological and
evolutionary relationships between species, and DNA metabarcoding. These applications …