A new national monitoring program provides, for the first time, area-representative knowledge of semi-natural grasslands in Norway. The results show that this habitat covers a larger area than ...

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Background and aims Plant traits may characterize functional ecosystem properties and help to predict community responses to environmental change. Since most traits used relate to aboveground plant ...

Grasslands are vast, open landscapes where grasses, sedges, and wildflowers dominate the terrain rather than trees. They ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

A bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives today introduced the North American Grasslands Conservation Act which, if passed by Congress, would create an incentive-based fund to sustain and restore ...

If you ever manage to tick the Route 66 road trip off your bucket list you’ll almost definitely find yourself driving through thousands of miles of temperate grasslands, or ‘prairies’ as they are ...

Ecosystems around the world are undergoing dramatic changes. Some of these changes are familiar stories. The collapse of fisheries, algal blooms in lakes and the loss of coral reefs are well-known ...

Plantations in grasslands are set to expand in Argentina and Uruguay in the years ahead, as well as in other parts of South America and Africa. Plantations in grasslands are set to expand in Argentina ...

Victoria has failed to protect its critically-endangered grasslands despite an agreement with the Commonwealth that was supposed to ensure the survival of these remnant ecosystems in Melbourne’s urban ...