Small‐scale barriers mitigate desertification processes and enhance plant recruitment in a degraded semiarid grassland

Abstract Anthropogenic desertification is a problem that plagues drylands globally; however, the factors which maintain degraded states are often unclear. In Canyonlands National Park on the Colorado Plateau of southeastern Utah, many degraded grasslands have not recovered structure and function >...

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Main Authors: Stephen E. Fick, Cheryl Decker, Michael C. Duniway, Mark E. Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-06-01
Series:Ecosphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1354