Global tree-planting campaigns can harm natural drylands. Effective climate restoration must work within dryland ecosystems, not seek to replace them.
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Extreme fire conditions converged in suburban neighborhoods built into the forests, shrubland and grasslands and quickly spread.
A new study provides a crucial baseline: the first global map of where these fungal networks are and how much of them exists.
Climate change is threatening sheep farming in South Africa’s Drakensberg. Farmers are adapting but need mountain infrastructure, better climate warnings and vets.
Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to improve cattle health.
Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.
Decades of experimentation revealed slow ecological processes and long-term interactions that have international scientific value.
By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment evolved through time.
Rural communities in South Africa rely on public land to graze their livestock. They must be part of fighting soil erosion and restoring natural grasses.
Trees are invading the open, grassy habitat of the endangered golden-shouldered parrot – giving predators cover to lie in wait.
Solar energy can help grasslands weather droughts in the semi-arid American West.
Wattled cranes breeding in wetlands is a clear sign that the wetland is healthy and thriving.
The Grassland Society of Southern Africa has been conducting scientific research for 60 years, adapting to new challenges.
A project in Melbourne’s Royal Park has proved city parks and streets can be used as sites for nature repair that help endangered ecosystems and species to survive.
A massive new nature reserve has just been declared in South Africa’s Drakensberg mountain range. It’s good news for communities, landowners, the land and local wildlife.
Wild turkeys were overhunted across the US through the early 1900s, but made a strong comeback. Now, though, numbers are declining again. Two ecologists parse the evidence and offer an explanation.
Even with the best intentions, policies from different government departments can clash.
Knowing which parts of Africa best help to store carbon means funding and policy efforts can be directed to protecting and increasing this carbon ‘land sink’.
The state’s largest wildfire on record tore across the heart of Texas cattle country, and more days of strong winds were forecast. A rangeland ecologist explains why the flames spread so fast.
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Professor, Urban Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University
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Senior Researcher, Agricultural Research Council - Animal Production, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Lecturer, University of Fort Hare
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Research Fellow, Ndlovu node, South African Environmental Observation Network & Visiting lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Tropical Ecology, University of Liverpool
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Conservation Biologist, Cirad
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Senior Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
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Professor and Director of Environmental Science, Oklahoma State University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in Global Change Ecology, Aarhus University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ecology, Nottingham Trent University
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Spatial ecologist, The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
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Senior research scientist, Stellenbosch University
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Elbert L. Fausett Distinguished Professor of Biology, Hendrix College