Droughts in the southwest United States have led to major forest and grassland die‐off
events in recent decades, suggesting plant community and ecosystem shifts are imminent as …

Drylands represent more than 41% of the global land surface and are at degradation risk
due to land use and climate change. Develo** strategies to mitigate degradation and …

In the intermountain western US, expansion of Pinyon (Pinus edulis) and Juniper (Juniperus
spp.) woodlands (PJ) into grasslands and shrublands is a pervasive phenomenon, and an …

Ecosystem services (ESs) are important for supporting human development. However, a
changing climate and anthropogenic impacts are resulting in the degradation of dryland …

Land management decisions need context about how landscapes will respond to different
circumstances or actions. As ecologists' understanding of nonlinear ecological dynamics …

Understanding how arid western North American environments have responded to past
climatic conditions can help predict how they respond to anthropogenic climate change …

Aims Although leaf and root traits may change considerably throughout plant development,
ontogenetic variation is rarely considered in trait-based ecology. Studies focused on how …

Biocrusts are a functional unit in arid and semiarid areas, their development has significant
recruitment and screening effects on soil microbial communities. Microbial composition of …

Efforts to restore semiarid wildlands in the western United States predominantly use fall
seeding. Fall conditions are more amenable to seeding, and successfully over‐wintered …

Land degradation can result in a loss of critical ecosystem services that we often seek to
restore through re‐establishment of desired plant communities. Trait‐based approaches …