ArticleScientific reports2020
Woody Plant Encroachment has a Larger Impact than Climate Change on Dryland Water Budgets.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- Long-term tree population growth can predict woody encroachment patterns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Pooled it
- Woody plant encroachment alters the vegetative and reproductive phenology of a Vereda palm swamp in Cerrado.International journal of biometeorology · 2026Article
- Effects of woody plant encroachment on abundance of multiple tick species in the U.S. Great Plains.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effects of multiple mammalian herbivores and climate on grassland-shrubland transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert.Ecology · 2024Article
- Woody plant encroachment modifies carbonate bedrock: field evidence for enhanced weathering and permeability.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Identification of the Optimal Season and Spectral Regions for Shrub Cover Estimation in Grasslands.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Woody plant encroachment (WPE) into grasslands is a global phenomenon that is associated with land degradation via xerification, which replaces grasses with shrubs and bare soil patches. It remains uncertain how the global processes of WPE and climate change may combine to impact water availability for ecosystems. Using a process-based model constrained by watershed observations, our results suggest that both xerification and climate change augment groundwater recharge by increasing channel transmission losses at the expense of plant available water. Conversion from grasslands to shrublands without creating additional bare soil, however, reduces transmission losses. Model simulations considering both WPE and climate change are used to assess their relative roles in a late 21
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