Woody plant enroachment and invasion of rangelands
Rangelands are native ecosystems maintained with fire and grazing. When fire is withheld from rangeland systems, woody plants increase, causing degradation and a loss of rangeland benefits.
- Herbaceous Production Lost to Tree Encroachment in United States Rangelands
- Ecosystem Carbon Losses With Woody Plant Invasion of Grasslands
- Rangeland Production Lost to Woody Encroachment in Great Plains Grasslands
- Remove, Reduce, or Manipulate? Best Practices for Brush Management Conservation Standards in Great Plains Grasslands
- Integrated Pest Management for Woody Encroachment
- Reducing Woody Encroachment in Grasslands: A Guide for Understanding Risk and Vulnerability
- Reducing Woody Encroachment in Grasslands: A Pocket Guide for Planning and Design
- Habitat First- Rangeland Management
- Habitat First- Deer and Trees
- Managing Native Grasslands for Wildlife
- Prairie Climate Companion-Woody Encroachment
- Seventy Questions of Importance to the Conservation of the North Central Grasslands of the United States in a Changing Climate
Accidental or deliberate introduction of trees into rangelands, such as with misguided tree planing strategies, creates numerous problems. Rangelands are not degraded forests- they are healthy, resilient plant and animal communities well adapted to their location.
- Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution
- Unintended Consequences of Planting Native and Non-native Trees in Treeless Ecosystems to Mitigate Climate Change
- Accounting for Albedo Change to Identify Climate-Positive Tree Cover Restoration
- Scrutinizing the Benefits of Rangeland Afforestation as a Natural Climate Solution
- The Darker Side of Tree Planting in the Great Plains
- With Power Comes Responsibility- A Rangelands Perspective on Forest Landscape Restoration
- Valuing Grasslands: Critical Ecosystems for Nature, Climate and People
- Why Tree Planting in Rangelands Can Be Bad for Biodiversity and the Climate
- Should Tree Invasions Be Used in Treeless Ecosystems to Mitigate Climate Change?
- Where tree planting and forest expansion are bad for biodiversity and ecosystem services
- A Rangeland Perspective on Forest Landscape Restoration
- Conflation of Reforestation with Restoration is Wide-spread
- Can Planting a Trilllion New Trees Save the World?
- Trees Won't Save Us
- Planting Trees in Grasslands Won't Save the Planet- Rather Protect Trees and Restore Forests
- The Importance of Grasslands, Savannahs and Rangelands in Global Climate Change Strategies
- Planting Trees Won't Stop Climate Change
- Afforestation Is Not a Solution to Mitigate CO2 Emissions
- The Long Shadow of Colonial Forestry Is a Threat to Savannahs and Grasslands
- Trees are overrated
- Myth-busting tropical grssbiome restoration
- Tree Planting Schemes Can Destroy Rangelands and Damage Pastoral Livelihoods
- Afforestation of Savannas: An Impending Ecological Disaster
- Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for Tropical Conservation and Restoration
- 'Bad science': Planting Frenzy Misses The Grasslands For The Trees
- Comment on The Global Tree Restoration Potential
- Grassy Biomes: An Inconvenient Reality for Large-scale Forest Restoration? A comment on the essay by Chazdon and Laestradius
- Global Priority Areas for Ecosystem Restoration
- The Trouble With Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa
- Ill-judged Tree Plainting in Africa Threatens Ecosystems
- Restoration Prioritization Must Be Informed by Marginalized People
- Combatting Global Grassland Degradation
- Beyond CO2: Multiple Ecosystem Services From Ecologically Intensive Grazing Landscapes of South America
- Clarifying the Confusion: Old-growth Savannahs and Tropical Ecosystem Degradation
- Ecologies of the Colonial Present: Pathological Forestry From the taux de boisement to Civilized Plantations
- Case studies of the importance of grasslands globally (for carbon storage)
- Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: Ancient, forgotten ecosystems
- Are Livestock Always Bad for the Planet?
- High Plant Diversity and Slow Assembly of Old-Growth Grasslands
- Management of Korangadu Pastureland
- A Guide to Decolonize Language in Conservation
International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026
- Brief for IYRP Working Group of Afforestation in Rangelands
- Rangeland Afforestation is not a Viable Climate Change Mitigation Strategy