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A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide.

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

A framework to predict the effects of livestock grazing and grazing exclusion on conservation values in natural ecosystems in Australia

scientific article published in 2007

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

scientific article published in January 2018

A multifaceted view on the impacts of shrub encroachment

scientific article published on July 2016

A practical guide to measuring functional indicators and traits in biocrusts

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Accounting for space and time in soil carbon dynamics in timbered rangelands

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

Ant colonies promote the diversity of soil microbial communities

scientific article published on 03 January 2019

Ants respond more strongly to grazing than changes in shrub cover

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Are shrubs really a sign of declining ecosystem function? Disentangling the myths and truths of woody encroachment in Australia

scientific article published in 2014

Aridity Decouples C:N:P Stoichiometry Across Multiple Trophic Levels in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Australian dryland soils are acidic and nutrient-depleted, and have unique microbial communities compared with other drylands

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Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact on changes in woody vegetation cover and carbon removals

scientific article published on 26 March 2024

Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Badger (Taxidea taxus) disturbances increase soil heterogeneity in a degraded shrub-steppe ecosystem

scientific article published in January 2009

Biocrust functional traits reinforce runon-runoff patchiness in drylands

scholarly article

Biocrust islands enhance infiltration, and reduce runoff and sediment yield on a heavily salinized dryland soil

scholarly article

Biocrust morphology is linked to marked differences in microbial community composition

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Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the impact of aridity on soil microbial communities in drylands: observational evidence from three continents

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the negative impacts of increasing aridity on ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands

scientific article

Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth

Biogeography of global drylands

scholarly article

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

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Biophysical risks to carbon sequestration and storage in Australian drylands.

scientific article

Biotic communities cannot mitigate the negative effects of grazing on multiple ecosystem functions and services in an arid shrubland

scientific article published in 2015

Bromus tectorum litter alters photosynthetic characteristics of biological soil crusts from a semiarid shrubland

scientific article published in 2013

Burning and Seeding Influence Soil Surface Morphology in an Artemisia Shrubland in Southern Idaho

scientific article published in 2003

CRYPTOGAMS, VASCULAR PLANTS, AND SOIL HYDROLOGICAL RELATIONS: SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE SEMIARID WOODLANDS OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA

scholarly article published in 1993

Can the invasive European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) assume the soil engineering role of locally-extinct natives?

Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity ⬇️

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Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Climate and plants regulate the spatial variation in soil multifunctionality across a climatic gradient

Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands.

scientific article

Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Comment on ‘Kidron, G. J. (2018). Biocrust research: A critical view on eight common hydrological-related paradigms and dubious theses. Ecohydrology , e2061’

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Community‐level responses to increasing dryness vary with plant growth form across an extensive aridity gradient

scientific article published on 31 March 2021

Competition drives the response of soil microbial diversity to increased grazing by vertebrate herbivores.

scientific article published on 29 April 2017

Conservation of non-vascular plants in semi-arid conditions

scientific article published in 1999

Contrasting Effects of Aridity and Grazing Intensity on Multiple Ecosystem Functions and Services in Australian Woodlands

scientific article published in 2017

Contrasting effects of two mammalian soil engineers on microbial communities

scientific article published in 2016

Contrasting global effects of woody plant removal on ecosystem structure, function and composition

scientific article published on 15 June 2019

Controls on Distribution Patterns of Biological Soil Crusts at Micro- to Global Scales

Corrigendum to “Grazing reduces the capacity of landscape function analysis to predict regional-scale nutrient availability or decomposition, but not total nutrient pools” [Ecol. Indic. 90 (2018) 494–501]

scientific article published in 2019

Cross-Biome Drivers of Soil Bacterial Alpha Diversity on a Worldwide Scale

scientific article published in 2019

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands.

scientific article

Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Diversity-productivity relationships vary in response to increasing land-use intensity

scientific article published in 2020

Do changes in grazing pressure and the degree of shrub encroachment alter the effects of individual shrubs on understorey plant communities and soil function?

scientific article published on April 2014

Do landscape health indices reflect arthropod biodiversity status in the eucalypt woodlands of eastern Australia?

scientific article published in 2010

Do mutualistic associations have broader host ranges than neutral or antagonistic associations? A test using myrmecophiles as model organisms

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Does litter decomposition vary between the foraging pits of two soil-disturbing mammal species?

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Does the morphology of animal foraging pits influence secondary seed dispersal by ants?

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Drivers of soil biodiversity vary with organism type along an extensive aridity gradient

scientific article

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances

scholarly article by Lixin Wang et al published 9 August 2012 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Dual community assembly processes in dryland biocrust communities

scientific article published in 2020

Dung predicts the global distribution of herbivore grazing pressure in drylands

scientific article published on 13 January 2025

Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

Ecosystem structure, function and composition in rangelands are negatively affected by livestock grazing

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Ecosystem structure, function, and composition in rangelands are negatively affected by livestock grazing.

scientific article

Effect of shrubs on soil saturated hydraulic conductivity depends on the grazing regime in a semi-arid shrub-encroached grassland

Effects of climate legacies on above- and belowground community assembly

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Environmental Factors Relating to the Distribution of Terricolous Bryophytes and Lichens in Semi-Arid Eastern Australia

scientific article

Experimental evidence for ecological cascades following threatened mammal reintroduction

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

Experimentally testing the species-habitat size relationship on soil bacteria: A proof of concept

scholarly article by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al published August 2018 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Fifty Years of Dental Implant Development: a Continuous Evolution

scientific article published in July 2016

Foraging animals create fertile patches in an Australian desert shrubland

scientific article published in 2009

Foraging pits of the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) as small-scale patches in a semi-arid Australian box woodland

Foraging pits, litter and plant germination in an arid shrubland

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Frequent fire promotes diversity and cover of biological soil crusts in a derived temperate grassland

scientific article

Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

scientific article published in 2023

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands.

scientific article published in August 2014

Global diversity and ecological drivers of lichenised soil fungi

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces

Global meta‐analysis of soil‐disturbing vertebrates reveals strong effects on ecosystem patterns and processes

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Global synthesis reveals strong multifaceted effects of eucalypts on soils

scientific article published on 4 May 2022

Grazing Regulates the Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Microbial Communities Within Ecological Networks

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Grazing and aridity have contrasting effects on the functional and taxonomic diversity of ants

scientific article published in 2020

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Grazing dampens the positive effects of shrub encroachment on ecosystem functions in a semi-arid woodland

scientific article published in 2013

Grazing impacts on ecosystem functions exceed those from mowing

scientific article published in 2021

Grazing reduces the capacity of Landscape Function Analysis to predict regional-scale nutrient availability or decomposition, but not total nutrient pools

scientific article published in 2018

Grow wider canopies or thicker stems: Variable response of woody plants to increasing dryness

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Hip holes: kangaroo (Macropus spp.) resting sites modify the physical and chemical environment of woodland soils

scientific article published in 2002

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

Human impacts and aridity differentially alter soil N availability in drylands worldwide

scientific article published in 2015

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis.

scientific article

Increased rainfall frequency triggers an increase in litter fall rates of reproductive structures in an arid eucalypt woodland

scientific article published on 06 May 2013

Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

scientific article

Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

scientific article published in April 2017

Integrated analysis of aboveground and belowground indicators support a comprehensive evaluation of ecosystem recovery

scientific article published in 2023

Interactive Effects of Three Ecosystem Engineers on Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grassland

Interconnected effects of shrubs, invertebrate‐derived macropores and soil texture on water infiltration in a semi‐arid savanna rangeland

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Introduced and native herbivores have different effects on plant composition in low productivity ecosystems

scientific article published on 07 September 2017

Invasion of an exotic annual forb affects grass‐feeding termites in a semi‐arid woodland

scientific article published in 2022

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea

scientific article published in 2011

Is the removal of aboveground shrub biomass an effective technique to restore a shrub‐encroached grassland?

scientific article published on 13 July 2019

LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots

scientific article published on 30 January 2022

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

Laboratory-based techniques for assessing the functional traits of biocrusts

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Landform and vegetation patch type moderate the effects of grazing-induced disturbance on carbon and nitrogen pools in a semi-arid woodland

Landscape modulators and resource accumulation in a post-fire eucalypt woodland

scientific article published on 06 September 2012

Landscape position moderates how ant nests affect hydrology and soil chemistry across a Chihuahuan Desert watershed

scientific article published in 2008

Large shrubs partly compensate negative effects of grazing on hydrological function in a semi-arid savanna

scientific article

Limited evidence for the use of livestock for the conservation management of exotic plant cover

scientific article published in 2020

Limited long‐term effectiveness of roller‐chopping for managing woody encroachment

scientific article published on 23 August 2020

Livestock activity increases exotic plant richness, but wildlife increases native richness, with stronger effects under low productivity

scientific article published on 12 August 2017

Livestock and kangaroo grazing have little effect on biomass and fuel hazard in semi-arid woodlands

scientific article

Livestock grazing and aridity reduce the functional diversity of biocrusts

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

Low‐intensity kangaroo grazing has largely benign effects on soil health

scientific article published on 09 March 2021

Mammalian engineers drive soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions across a disturbance gradient.

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Managing semi-arid woodlands for carbon storage: Grazing and shrub effects on above- and belowground carbon

Microbial communities are associated with indicators of soil surface condition across a continental gradient

scientific article

Microbial richness and composition independently drive soil multifunctionality

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Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: towards a unifying framework.

scientific article

Microsite Differentiation Drives the Abundance of Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria along Aridity Gradients

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Microsite and grazing intensity drive infiltration in a semiarid woodland

Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Multiple trade-offs regulate the effects of woody plant removal on biodiversity and ecosystem functions in global rangelands

scientific article published on 06 October 2019

Needs more salt: old hydration habits are hard to break

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: the role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity.

scientific article published on December 2012

Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient

scientific article published on 13 November 2021

On the interaction between tree canopy position and environmental effects on soil attributes and plant communities

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Optimising carbon sequestration in arid and semiarid rangelands

scientific article published in 2015

Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Pediatric peripheral intravenous access: does nursing experience and competence really make a difference?

scientific article published in July 2010

Perennial plant patches are sinks for seeds in semi‐arid woodlands in varying condition

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Peripheral Intravenous Access in Pediatric Inpatients ⬇️

scientific article published on January 20, 2012

Peripheral difficult venous access in children

scientific article

Plant and soil surface responses to a combination of shrub removal and grazing in a shrub-encroached woodland

scientific article

Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Plant cover and composition in relation to density of Callitris glaucophylla (white cypress pine) along a rainfall gradient in eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2005

Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands

scientific article published on December 2014

Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands

scientific article published in January 2012

Ploughing and grazing alter the spatial patterning of surface soils in a shrub-encroached woodland

scholarly article by Stefani Daryanto et al published June 2013 in Geoderma

Population Dynamics of the Perennial Rangeland Shrubs Atriplex vesicaria, Maireana astrotricha and M. pyramidata Under Grazing, 1980-87

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Positive effects of shrubs on plant species diversity do not change along a gradient in grazing pressure in an arid shrubland

scientific article published in 2012

Primary Care Use and Assessment of Adolescents' Sexual Health During Hospitalization

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Recent grazing reduces reptile richness but historic grazing filters reptiles based on their functional traits

scientific article published in 2019

Remotely sensed canopy height reveals three pantropical ecosystem states: a comment

scientific article

Remove or retain: ecosystem effects of woody encroachment and removal are linked to plant structural and functional traits

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors

scientific article published on 23 August 2024

Resource utilization and cost of inserting peripheral intravenous catheters in hospitalized children

scientific article published in July 2013

Response to comment on "Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystem".

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Restoration potential of threatened ecosystem engineers increases with aridity: broad scale effects on soil nutrients and function

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Rewilding soil-disturbing vertebrates to rehabilitate degraded landscapes: benefits and risks

Risks to carbon dynamics in semi-arid woodlands of eastern Australia under current and future climates

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Roadside verges support greater ecosystem functions than adjacent agricultural land in a grassy woodland

scientific article published in 2022

SOIL CRUST LICHENS AND MOSSES ON CALCRETEDOMINANT SOILS AT MARALINGA IN ARID SOUTH AUSTRALIA ⬇️

article by D J Eldridge published 1998 in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Sarcoptes mange (Sarcoptes scabiei) increases diurnal activity of bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus) in an agricultural riparian environment

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Short-Term Vegetation and Soil Responses to Mechanical Destruction of Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus L.) Warrens in an Australian Box Woodland

scientific article published on 03 February 2006

Shrub encroachment alters the spatial patterns of infiltration

Shrub encroachment is linked to extirpation of an apex predator

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Shrub hummocks as foci for small animal disturbances in an encroached shrubland

scientific article published in 2012

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands ⬇️

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Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe

scientific article

Soil surface complexity has a larger effect on food exploitation by ants than a change from grassland to shrubland

scientific article published on 11 February 2018

Soil-disturbance by native animals plays a critical role in maintaining healthy Australian landscapes

scientific article

Soil-foraging animals alter the composition and co-occurrence of microbial communities in a desert shrubland.

scientific article published on May 2015

Soil-landform and vegetation relations in the chenopod shrublands of western New South Wales

scientific article published in 1988

Spatial patterns of infiltration vary with disturbance in a shrub-encroached woodland

Structure and function of bacterial metaproteomes across biomes

Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world

scientific article

Structure of biological soil crust communities in Callitris glaucophylla woodlands of New South Wales, Australia

article

Surface destabilisation by the invasive burrowing engineer Mus musculus on a sub-Antarctic island

article

Surface indicators are correlated with soil multifunctionality in global drylands

scientific article

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Temperature and Rainfall Patterns Constrain the Multidimensional Rewilding of Global Forests

scientific article published on 26 April 2022

Temporal changes in soil function in a wooded dryland following simulated disturbance by a vertebrate engineer

scientific article published on 23 January 2021

The Role of Biocrusts in Arid Land Hydrology

scientific article published in 2016

The fertile island effect varies with aridity and plant patch type across an extensive continental gradient

scientific article published in 2020

The geomorphic signature of bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus) and cattle (Bos taurus) in an agricultural riparian ecosystem

scientific article published on 28 April 2011

The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services

The impact of termites on soil sheeting properties is better explained by environmental factors than by their feeding and building strategies

scholarly article

The influence of climatic legacies on the distribution of dryland biocrust communities

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

The influence of shrub species and fine-scale plant density on arthropods in a semiarid shrubland

scientific article

The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

The resource coupling role of animal foraging pits in semi-arid woodlands

Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis

scientific article

Towards an understanding of future range shifts in lichens and mosses under climate change

scientific article published on 29 November 2022

Understorey biodiversity supports multiple ecosystem services in mature Mediterranean forests

scientific article published in 2022

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

scientific article published on 7 August 2024

Upper boundary on tree cover at global drylands

scientific article published on 16 February 2024

Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2024

What do site condition multi-metrics tell us about species biodiversity?

scientific article published in 2014

What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community

scientific article published on 18 May 2022

White cypress pine (Callitris glaucophylla): a review of its roles in landscape and ecological processes in eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2005

Wind Dispersal of the Vagant Lichen Chondropsis semiviridis in Semi-arid Eastern Australia

scientific article published in 1999

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