Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being ...

The grade school textbooks in my rural, northern Minnesota classroom raised an issue that led to lunchroom table talk over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Rainforests were being cut down. Animals ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

In Mongolia, livestock products, including live animals, milk, meat, wool and hides, account for one-third of that country's gross domestic product. In Africa much of the livestock is used to provide ...

A reflection of the planet’s increasingly volatile climate and the enduring influence of industrial interests, North American grasslands find themselves at the epicenter of one of the most severe ...

On a sunny, sultry summer day, Joe Blastick, a land steward with The Nature Conservancy, scans the hilly pastures north of Clear Lake, South Dakota, and rattles off the names of plants he sees. Silver ...

Rupestrian grasslands form an ecosystem of extremes: covering a mere 0.8% of Brazil’s territory, they are home to 15% of the nation’s flora. Of the 5,700 plant species catalogued, 40% can only be ...

THIS little volume is a contribution to the study of South African plant ecology, a subject on which Prof. Bews has already published several papers. In studying the plant succession in the grasslands ...