SynthesisGlobal change biology2022
Encroachment diminishes herbaceous plant diversity in grassy ecosystems worldwide.
Synthesis in Global change biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Encroachment diminishes herbaceous plant diversity in grassy ecosystems worldwide.Global change biology · 2022Pooled it
- Restoring indigenous trees can help combat malnutrition in Africa.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Thicket Formation and Light Limitation Drive Patch-Scale Vegetation Transitions in a Subtropical Savanna.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Pastoralism Can Mitigate Biodiversity Loss on Global Rangelands.Bioscience · 2026Article
- Shrub encroachment enhances AMF network stability and complexity, while cropland destabilizes AMF communities in a subtropical alpine grassland.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Shrub Encroachment: A Catalyst for Enhanced Soil Nutrients Storage in the Altai Mountains.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Temperature-dependent variations in under-canopy herbaceous foliar diseases following shrub encroachment in grasslands.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Effects of multiple mammalian herbivores and climate on grassland-shrubland transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert.Ecology · 2024Article
- Interactions between soil and other environmental variables modulate forest expansion and ecotone dynamics in humid savannas of Central Africa.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Fire facilitates ground layer plant diversity in a Miombo ecosystem.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Nitrogen translocation by Highland cattle grazing inNutrient cycling in agroecosystems · 2023Article
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Abstract
Woody encroachment is ubiquitous in grassy ecosystems worldwide, but its global impacts on the diversity of herbaceous plants that characterise and define these ecosystems remain unquantified. The pervasiveness of encroachment is relatively easily observed via remote sensing, but its impacts on plant diversity and richness below the canopy can only be observed via field-based studies. Via a meta-analysis of 42 field studies across tropical to temperate grassy ecosystems, we quantified how encroachment altered herbaceous species richness, and the richness of forbs, C
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