Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Grasslands, which constitute almost 40% of the terrestrial biosphere, provide habitat for a
great diversity of animals and plants and contribute to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion …

Two major environmental challenges of our time are responding to climate change and
reversing biodiversity decline. Interventions that simultaneously tackle both challenges are …

While global deforestation induced by human land use has been quantified, the drivers and
extent of simultaneous woody plant encroachment (WPE) into open areas are only …

As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by
human influence. Humans have had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems …

Poaceae (the grasses) is arguably the most successful plant family, in terms of its global
occurrence in (almost) all ecosystems with angiosperms, its ecological dominance in many …

Fire activity varies substantially at global scales because of the influence of climate, but at
broad spatiotemporal scales, the possible effects of herbivory on fire activity are unknown …

Tropical savannas have a ground cover dominated by C4 grasses, with fire and herbivory
constraining woody cover below a rainfall‐based potential. The savanna biome covers 50 …

There is growing interest in the application of alternative stable state (ASS) theory to explain
major vegetation patterns of the world. Here, we introduce the theory as applied to the …

The extirpation of native wildlife species and widespread establishment of livestock farming
has dramatically distorted large mammal herbivore communities across the globe …