Abstract Changes in the phenology of vegetation activity may accelerate or dampen rates of
climate change by altering energy exchanges between the land surface and the atmosphere …

For the past century, woody plants have increased in grasslands and savannas worldwide.
Woody encroachment may significantly alter ecosystem functioning including fire regimes, …

The satellite record has revealed substantial land surface “greening” in the northern hemisphere
over recent decades. Process‐based Earth system models (ESMs) attribute enhanced …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other …

While the key role of termites in the decomposition of litter in the tropics has been acknowledged
for a long time, much less information exists on their importance in the recycling of dung …

Megafauna (animals ≥45 kg) have probably shaped the Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems for
millions of years with pronounced impacts on biogeochemistry, vegetation, ecological …

Trees are pivotal to global biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, yet accelerating
global changes threaten global tree diversity, making accurate species extinction risk …

The Earth has lost approximately half of its large mammal species (≥45 kg, one-third of
species ≥9 kg) over the past 120,000 years, resulting in depauperate megafauna communities …

Some introduced populations thrive and evolve despite the presumed loss of diversity at
introduction. We aimed to quantify the amount of genetic diversity retained at introduction in …

Biomes are important constructs for organizing understanding of how the worlds’ major
terrestrial ecosystems differ from one another and for monitoring change in these ecosystems. …