Despite their ecological, economic and social importance, grasslands in areas with
Mediterranean climates continue to receive limited scientific, political and media attention …

Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear
how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (“safe …

Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as
habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global …

Plants are important components of any rangeland. However, the importance of desert
rangeland plant diversity has often been underestimated. It has been argued that desert …

Overgrazing reduces plant species diversity, productivity and soil C and N storage due to
degradation especially in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. We hypothesized that fencing …

This study quantifies the impact of four different grazing regimes (heavy, moderate, light and
ungrazed) on the vegetation dynamics of rangeland ecosystems along the southern …

Although fencing is an effective restoration strategy used to achieve the global sustainability
of grassland ecosystem, it is unclear from the literature whether fencing results in positive …

Despite the importance of fodder shrubs to small ruminant diets and production in arid and
semi-arid ecosystems, they are often not considered when quantifying grazing land …