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shrub encroachment

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 5 | Mentions: 9

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Definition

Shift toward woody plant encroachment into nonwoody meadows and grasslands

Related Terms (2)

woody encroachmentshrub expansion

Publications (6)

Sage-Grouse

2023primary focus

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

2022Arctic Scienceprimary focus

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

2018Naturecontext

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

2018Naturemeasured variable

Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climateâ€“soil carbon feedback

2015Global Change Biologymeasured

Propagating climate and vegetation change through the hydrologic cycle in a mountain headwaters catchment.

Documents (2)

Questions Commonly Asked About Holistic Resource Management

Stream Channel Responses to Streamflow Diversion on Small Streams of the Snake River Drainage, Idaho

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