Understanding how drylands respond to ongoing environmental change is extremely
important for global sustainability. In this review, we discuss how biotic attributes, climate …

Aridity, which is increasing worldwide because of climate change, affects the structure and
functioning of dryland ecosystems. Whether aridification leads to gradual (versus abrupt) …

The constant provision of plant productivity is integral to supporting the liability of
ecosystems and human wellbeing in global drylands. Drylands are paradigmatic examples …

Because the capability of terrestrial ecosystems to fix carbon is constrained by nutrient
availability, understanding how nutrients limit plant growth is a key contemporary question …

Globally, drylands represent the largest terrestrial biome and are projected to expand by
23% by the end of this century. Drylands are characterized by extremely low levels of water …

Drylands cover 41% of the Earth's terrestrial surface, play a critical role in global ecosystem
function, and are home to over two billion people. Like other biomes, drylands face …

Identifying tipping points in the relationship between aridity and gross nitrogen (N) cycling
rates could show critical vulnerabilities of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. Yet, the …

The tropical deforestation due to biotic interference, land use change, and population
explosion in Asian countries has attracted the global concern with respect to conservation …

Straw return and liming are important agronomic practices to enable farming in red soils of
China. Organic substrates and inorganic carbon have an important effect on soil pH in red …

Arid shrublands are stressful environments, typified by alkaline soils low in organic matter,
with biologically-limiting extremes in water availability, temperature, and UV radiation. The …