Grasslands account for roughly 40% of terrestrial ecosystems and are paramount to global food security. Wild grasslands provide food for livestock and habitat for pollinators and act as a carbon sink ...
Survey shows awareness jumps from 31% to 68%, highlighting how education can boost support to protect America’s vital, ...
Grass, clover and herbs are the foundation of Swiss agriculture: Two-thirds of Switzerland's agricultural land is grassland, much of which is barely suitable for arable farming. Vast areas of ...
Grasslands go by many different names and are made up of two main types: tropical — also known as savannas — and temperate. The two types appear similar, but have different kinds of soil and are ...
Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...
Land cover data are commonly used to model the terrestrial carbon (C) sink, yet these data have wide margins of error that significantly alter estimates of global C ...
Sustainable agricultural intensification could improve ecosystem service multifunctionality, yet empirical evidence remains tenuous, especially regarding consequences for spatially coupled ecosystems ...
Survey shows limited awareness of grasslands, but learning more increases support for conservation of this critical ecosystem ...
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 ...
The restoration of grassland ecosystems may need more of a guided, hands-on approach over time, according to a new review of global conservation efforts. Grasslands' biodiversity and resilience to ...
Too often, one ecosystem is overlooked in value and complexity in the workings of our planet. The images of a leveled forest or polluted waterway resonate much more strongly than the increasing ...
Grassland ecosystems, like that of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California, are seeing their biodiversity shift rapidly with changing climate. Although all ecosystems are affected by a ...