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1. Full Text Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents
by Stevens, Nicola and Lehmann, Caroline E. R and Murphy, Brett P and Durigan, Giselda
Global Change Biology, ISSN 1354-1013, 01/2017, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 235 - 244
Tropical savannas are a globally extensive biome prone to rapid vegetation change in response to changing environmental conditions. Via a meta‐analysis, we... 
deciduousness | CO 2 | allometry | N‐fixation | woody encroachment | forest expansion | woody vegetation change | fire suppression | land‐use change | land-use change | CO | N-fixation | CO2 | CLIMATE-CHANGE | GLOBAL CHANGE | FIRE REGIMES | SEMIARID SAVANNA | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | ATMOSPHERIC CO2 | AUSTRALIAN SAVANNA | ECOLOGY | AFRICAN SAVANNA | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | CARBON-DIOXIDE | TROPICAL SAVANNA | SOUTHERN AFRICA | Grassland | South America | Trees | Ecosystem | Africa | Conservation of Natural Resources | Australia | Analysis | Plants | Grasslands | Climate change | Global warming | Vegetation
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2. Full Text Ecohydrological Implications of Woody Plant Encroachment
by Travis E. Huxman and Bradford P. Wilcox and David D. Breshears and Russell L. Scott and Keirith A. Snyder and Eric E. Small and Kevin Hultine and William T. Pockman and Robert B. Jackson
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 2/2005, Volume 86, Issue 2, pp. 308 - 319
Increases in the abundance or density of woody plants in historically semiarid and arid grassland ecosystems have important ecological, hydrological, and... 
Landscapes | Stream flow | Vegetation | Ecohydrology | Soil water | Climate models | Plants | Woody plants | Encroachment | Special Feature: Ecohydrology | Water cycle | carbon cycling | evapotranspiration | ecohydrology | vegetation change | woody plant encroachment | Woody plant encroachment | Vegetation change | Carbon cycling | Evapotranspiration | WATER YIELD | MOJAVE DESERT | CATCHMENT EXPERIMENTS | NEW-MEXICO | ROOTING DEPTH | TEXAS RANGELANDS | AMERICAN SOUTHWEST | CHIHUAHUAN DESERT | ECOLOGY | GRASSLAND/FOREST CONTINUUM | VEGETATION CHANGES | Ecology | Research | Migration
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3. Full Text Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas
by Ratajczak, Zakary and Nippert, Jesse B and Collins, Scott L
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 04/2012, Volume 93, Issue 4, pp. 697 - 703
Woody encroachment is a widespread and acute phenomenon affecting grasslands and savannas worldwide. We performed a meta-analysis of 29 studies from 13... 
species richness | biodiversity | woody release | bush encroachment | global change | shrub encroachment | productivity-richness relationship | tree encroachment | ecosystem structure | primary productivity | tree-grass coexistence | Productivity | Terrestrial ecosystems | Plant ecology | Shrubs | Reports | Plants | Grasses | Encroachment | Woody plants | Species | Savannas | tree–grass coexistence | productivity–richness relationship | Productivity-richness relationship | Bush encroachment | Primary productivity | Tree encroachment | Woody release | Tree-grass coexistence | Global change | Shrub encroachment | Biodiversity | Species richness | Ecosystem structure | DETERMINANTS | MESIC GRASSLAND | FOREST | DENSITY | COMMUNITY | DYNAMICS | ECOLOGY | AFRICAN SAVANNA | ECOSYSTEM | RAINFALL | Biological Evolution | Rain | Demography | Conservation of Natural Resources | Plants - classification | North America | Grasslands | Research | Plant populations
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4. Full Text Salt marsh‐mangrove ecotones: using structural gradients to investigate the effects of woody plant encroachment on plant–soil interactions and ecosystem carbon pools
by Yando, Erik S and Osland, Michael J and Willis, Jonathan M and Day, Richard H and Krauss, Ken W and Hester, Mark W and McCulley, Rebecca
Journal of Ecology, ISSN 0022-0477, 07/2016, Volume 104, Issue 4, pp. 1020 - 1031
Summary Changing winter climate extremes are expected to result in the poleward migration of mangrove forests at the expense of salt marshes. Although... 
carbon storage | mangrove forest | range expansion | forest development | ecotone | plant–soil (below‐ground) interactions | woody plant encroachment | soil development | climate change | salt marsh | plant–soil (below-ground) interactions | UNITED-STATES | CLIMATE-CHANGE | AVICENNIA-GERMINANS | SHRUB ENCROACHMENT | SEA-LEVEL | PLANT SCIENCES | GULF-OF-MEXICO | BLUE CARBON | plant-soil (below-ground) interactions | SOUTH FLORIDA | EXPANSION | ECOLOGY | COASTAL WETLANDS | Soils | Global temperature changes | Carbon content | Analysis | Environmental aspects | Tidal marshes | Rain and rainfall | Peat | Investigations | Studies | Precipitation | Soil erosion | Ecosystems | Herbivores | Biomass | Carbon sequestration | Wetlands
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5. Full Text Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis
by Eldridge, David J and Bowker, Matthew A and Maestre, Fernando T and Roger, Erin and Reynolds, James F and Whitford, Walter G
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 07/2011, Volume 14, Issue 7, pp. 709 - 722
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 709–722 Encroachment of woody plants into grasslands has generated considerable interest among ecologists. Syntheses of encroachment... 
desertification | invasion | ecosystem processes | shrubland | degradation | Encroachment | woody | thickening | shrub | Degradation | Woody | Ecosystem processes | Desertification | Shrub | Shrubland | Invasion | Thickening | WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT | SEMIARID MEDITERRANEAN GRASSLANDS | SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA | BUSH ENCROACHMENT | NORTH-AMERICAN GRASSLANDS | SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY | CHIHUAHUAN DESERT | SPECIES RICHNESS | ECOLOGY | AFRICAN SAVANNA | SEMIDESERT GRASSLAND | Geography | Introduced Species | Plants | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Population Dynamics | Grasslands | Soils | Ecosystem components | Global temperature changes | Carbon content | Analysis | Rivers | encroachment
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6. Full Text Mapping the dynamics of eastern redcedar encroachment into grasslands during 1984–2010 through PALSAR and time series Landsat images
by Wang, Jie and Xiao, Xiangming and Qin, Yuanwei and Dong, Jinwei and Geissler, George and Zhang, Geli and Cejda, Nicholas and Alikhani, Brian and Doughty, Russell B
Remote Sensing of Environment, ISSN 0034-4257, 03/2017, Volume 190, pp. 233 - 246
Woody plant encroachment of eastern redcedar ( ) into native grasslands in the U.S. Southern Great Plains has significantly affected the production of forage... 
Woody encroachment | Land cover | Phenology | Vegetation indices | Juniperus virginiana | RICE PLANTING AREA | COVER | INTEGRATING PALSAR | CHINA | IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY | MODIS | ACCURACY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | DECIDUOUS RUBBER PLANTATIONS | REMOTE SENSING | TROPICAL FORESTS | OKLAHOMA | VEGETATION | Grasslands | Earth resources technology satellites | Biogeochemical cycles | Analysis | Remote sensing | Algorithms | Plant physiology | Livestock
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7. Full Text The resprouting response of co‐occurring temperate woody plant and grass species to elevated [CO2]: An insight into woody plant encroachment of grasslands
by Manea, Anthony and Leishman, Michelle R
Austral Ecology, ISSN 1442-9985, 08/2019, Volume 44, Issue 5, pp. 917 - 926
The phenomenon of woody plant thickening in grasslands has been observed globally and is likely to have widespread ecological consequences. It has been... 
herbivory | disturbance | fire | shrub encroachment | climate change | KEY FUNCTIONAL TRAIT | STARCH STORAGE | COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS | NITROGEN RESERVES | INVASIVE PLANTS | ATMOSPHERIC CO2 | SOIL-WATER | ECOLOGY | AFRICAN SAVANNA | CARBON-DIOXIDE | Grasslands | Global temperature changes | Carbohydrates | Plants (botany) | Carbon dioxide | Greenhouses | Prairies | Herbivory | Grasses | Biomass | Woody plants | Encroachment | Storage | Herbivores | Carbon capture and storage | Species | Thickening
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8. Full Text Shrub encroachment and vertebrate diversity: A global meta‐analysis
by Stanton, Richard A and Boone, Wesley W and Soto‐Shoender, Jose and Fletcher, Robert J and Blaum, Niels and McCleery, Robert A and Gillespie, Thomas
Global Ecology and Biogeography, ISSN 1466-822X, 03/2018, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp. 368 - 379
Aim Across the planet, grass‐dominated biomes are experiencing shrub encroachment driven by atmospheric CO2 enrichment and land‐use change. By altering... 
savannas | species richness | biodiversity | grasslands | grazing | shrub thinning | global change | pastoral abandonment | shrub encroachment | woody encroachment | VEGETATION STRUCTURE | KALAHARI SAVANNA RANGELANDS | COMMUNITY COMPOSITION | NORTHERN CHIHUAHUAN DESERT | GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL | SOUTH-AFRICAN SAVANNA | AUSTRALIAN SAVANNA | LAND-USE | ECOLOGY | HABITAT STRUCTURE | BIRD COMMUNITY | Biomes | Grasslands | Analysis | Biological diversity | Community structure | Productivity | Annual precipitation | Wildlife conservation | Ecosystems | Terrestrial environments | Carbon dioxide | Rainfall | Abundance | Systematic review | Grasses | Encroachment | Biodiversity | Net Primary Productivity | Land use | Mitigation | Species diversity | Vertebrates | Taxa | Precipitation | Thinning | Continents | Herpetofauna | Species richness
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9. Full Text Extensive 21st‐Century Woody Encroachment in South America's Savanna
by Rosan, Thais M and Aragão, Luiz E.O.C and Oliveras, Imma and Phillips, Oliver L and Malhi, Yadvinder and Gloor, Emanuel and Wagner, Fabien H
Geophysical Research Letters, ISSN 0094-8276, 06/2019, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp. 6594 - 6603
Woody encroachment is occurring in all tropical savannas of the world. However, in the Brazilian savanna (the Cerrado), the extent of this phenomenon is still... 
remote sensing | EVI | woody encroachment | savanna | BIODIVERSITY | CERRADO | CARBON | BIOME | DETERMINANTS | CO2 | FIRE PATTERNS | FOREST | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | CONSERVATION | VEGETATION | Biodegradation | Vegetative index | Vegetation index | Ecosystems | Environmental policy | Conservation | Imaging techniques | Ecotones | Abandonment | Biodiversity | Land cover | Encroachment | Land use management | Land use | Biological diversity | Degradation | Spectroradiometers | Satellites | Satellite data | Vegetation | Trend analysis | Tropical environment | Fire | Savannahs
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