North American and European grasslands consist of relatively young communities that have
evolved under human influences. These communities are uniformly sensitive to top-down …

Lespedeza cuneata (sericea lespedeza; hereafter “sericea”) is an invasive species brought
to the US from East Asia in the 1890s to be used as forage. However, it has now become a …

Many rangelands of the world are fire dependent and display a strong interaction between
fire and grazing on animal behavior, productivity and ecosystem processes. The application …

Invasive species are suspected to be major contributors to biodiversity declines worldwide.
Counterintuitively, however, invasive species effects are likely scale dependent and are …

The growing concerns about water scarcity have focused more attention on water
management in agriculture and promotion of water conservation through improved water …

Risk assessments of biological invasions rarely account for native species performance and
community features, but the assessment presented here could provide additional insights for …

Management for invasive species is usually done with the intent of maintaining or enhancing
one or several ecosystem services. On rangeland landscapes, management is often focused …

By definition, mutualisms involve the exchange of goods or services between partners. It has
been shown that mutualism can grade into parasitism, but even when exchange is mutually …

Biochar, a carbon-rich product formed by the incomplete combustion of biomass, has been
shown to improve soil quality and increase crop growth but has not been evaluated in prairie …

In this study we assessed the water transport strategies and the abundance of alien and
native tree species at a regional scale in C órdoba M ountains, C entral A rgentina. The aims …