This Review assesses the adequacy of current stewardship strategies to address the
accelerating challenges confronting global rangeland systems. The assessment was …

Our planet is facing significant changes of biodiversity across spatial scales. Although the
negative effects of local biodiversity (α diversity) loss on ecosystem stability are well …

Rangeland management, like most disciplines of natural resource management, has been
characterized by human efforts to reduce variability and increase predictability in natural …

Temporal stability of ecosystem functioning increases the predictability and reliability of
ecosystem services, and understanding the drivers of stability across spatial scales is …

This essay examines three central components of extensive livestock production—herd
composition, grazing/pasture management, and rangeland tenure. In all of these areas …

The relationship between biodiversity and stability, or its inverse, temporal variability, is
multidimensional and complex. Temporal variability in aggregate properties, like total …

Fire is a natural process in grasslands that maintains an open canopy and creates variable
vegetative structure and composition over time. Although there is a wealth of knowledge on …

Although the destabilizing effects of biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning at local and
larger spatial scales are fairly well understood, the consequences of environmental …

The species pool concept has advanced our understanding for how biodiversity is coupled
at local and regional scales. However, it remains unclear how species pool size, the number …

Heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a foundational characteristic of ecological
systems. Under global change, understanding temporal community heterogeneity is …