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
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.
- The Darker Side of Tree Planting in the Great Plains
- With Power Comes Responsibility- A Rangelands Perspective on Forest Landscape Restoration
- 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?
- A Rangeland Perspective on Forest Landscape Restoration
- Can Planting a Trilllion New Trees Save the World?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- High Plant Diversity and Slow Assembly of Old-Growth Grasslands
- Management of Korangadu Pastureland
- A Guide to Decolonize Language in Conservation