Summary: Ecological Applications, 18(4), 2008, pp. 928­944
Ó 2008 by the Ecological Society of America
WOODY PLANTS IN GRASSLANDS:
POST-ENCROACHMENT STAND DYNAMICS
DAWN M. BROWNING,1,4
STEVEN R. ARCHER,1
GREGORY P. ASNER,2
MITCHEL P. MCCLARAN,1
AND CAROL A. WESSMAN
3
1
School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210043, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
2
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305 USA
3
CIRES, University of Colorado, 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0216 USA
Abstract. Woody plant abundance is widely recognized to have increased in savannas and
grasslands worldwide. The lack of information on the rates, dynamics, and extent of increases
in shrub abundance is a major source of uncertainty in assessing how this vegetation change
has influenced biogeochemical cycles. Projecting future consequences of woody cover change

Source: Archer, Steven R. - Savanna/Woodland Ecology Lab., School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona

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