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Tiffany A. Aldworth, Michele L. W. Toucher, Alistair D. Clulow and Anthony M. Swemmer
Over the past century, increases in indigenous woody plant species, also known as woody encroachment (WE), has occurred in grasslands and savannas across the globe. While the impact on grassland and savanna composition and productivity has been well stud...
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Ilias Karmiris, Thomas G. Papachristou and Dimitrios Fotakis
Silvopasture, a traditional agroforestry practice, combines the presence of trees, shrubs, herbage, and livestock in time and space to provide multiple ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being. However, the abandonment of traditional agrofo...
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Nicole Durfee and Carlos G. Ochoa
The combined impacts of woody plant encroachment and climate variability have the potential to alter the water balance in many sagebrush steppe ecosystems in the Western USA, leading to reduced water availability in these already water-scarce regions. Th...
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Bharat Sharma Acharya, Gehendra Kharel, Chris B. Zou, Bradford P. Wilcox and Todd Halihan
Woody plant encroachment has profound impacts on the sustainable management of water resources in water-limited ecosystems. However, our understanding of the effects of this global phenomenon on groundwater recharge at local and regional scales is limite...
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R. James Ansley, Tian Zhang and Caitlyn Cooper
Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) is an invasive native woody plant in the southern Great Plains, USA. Treatments used to slow the invasion rate have either killed the plant (?root-kill?) or killed above-ground tissue (?top-kill?). Top-killing provide...
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