Understanding and predicting plant response to disturbance is of paramount importance in
our changing world. Resprouting ability is often considered a simple qualitative trait and …

Anthropogenic activities such as uncontrolled deforestation and increasing greenhouse gas
emissions are responsible for triggering a series of environmental imbalances that affect the …

Large mammalian herbivores (megafauna) have experienced extinctions and declines since
prehistory. Introduced megafauna have partly counteracted these losses yet are thought to …

Many species have the ability to resprout vegetatively after a substantial loss of biomass
induced by environmental stress, including drought. Many of the regions characterised by …

Novel forms of drought are emerging globally, due to climate change, shifting teleconnection
patterns, expanding human water use, and a history of human influence on the environment …

We examined postfire regeneration of chaparral shrubs during an intense drought. This
study focused on the demography and physiology of shrub species that resprout from a …

Vegetation‐type conversions between grasslands and shrublands have occurred worldwide
in semiarid regions over the last 150 years. Areas once covered by drought‐deciduous …

Severe droughts are on the rise in many regions. But thus far, attempts to predict when
drought will cause a major regime shift or when ecosystems are resilient, often using plant …

Reduced defense against large herbivores has been suggested to be part of the “island
syndrome” in plants. However, empirical evidence for this pattern is mixed. In this paper, we …

It is well established that transpiration and photosynthetic rates generally increase in
resprouting shoots after fire in chaparral shrublands. By contrast, little is known about how …