operations, and policies of park management in South Africa—specifically in regard to wildlife management—and how they contrast with park management in the U.S. Our discussion is especially relevant to protected areas in grassland, savanna, and shrubland biomes because both countries contain those habitat types (Licht et al. 2008). We focus on seven issues that may stimulate thought among U.S. ...

Background – Shrublands are receiving increasing attention because of climate change. However, knowledge about biomass allocation shrublands at the community level and how this is regulated by limited availability but critical for accurately estimating carbon stocks predicting global cycles. Methods We sampled 50 typical along a gradient in China investigated shrubland effect on allocation. Shr...

Drought intensity and duration are expected to increase over the coming century in semiarid western United States due anthropogenic climate change. Historic data indicate that megadroughts this region have resulted widespread ecosystem transitions. Landscape-scale monitoring with remote sensing can help land managers track these changes. However, special considerations required: traditional veg...