Search Results - "Veldman, Joseph W"

Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands by Veldman, Joseph W, Buisson, Elise, Durigan, Giselda, Fernandes, G Wilson, Le Stradic, Soizig, Mahy, Gregory, Negreiros, Daniel, Overbeck, Gerhard E, Veldman, Robin G, Zaloumis, Nicholas P, Putz, Francis E, Bond, William J

“…We expand the concept of "old growth" to encompass the distinct ecologies and conservation values of the world's ancient grass-dominated biomes. Biologically…”
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Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation by Veldman, Joseph W.

“…Ancient tropical grassy biomes are often misrecognized as severely degraded forests. I trace this confusion to several factors, with roots in the nineteenth…”
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Savannas after afforestation: Assessment of herbaceous community responses to wildfire versus native tree planting by Haddad, Thaís, Viani, Ricardo, Cava, Mário, Durigan, Giselda, Veldman, Joseph

“…Afforestation and fire exclusion are pervasive threats to tropical savannas. In Brazil, laws limiting prescribed burning hinder the study of fire in the…”
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High plant diversity and slow assembly of old-growth grasslands by Nerlekar, Ashish N., Veldman, Joseph W.

“…Earth’s ancient grasslands and savannas—hereafter old-growth grasslands—have long been viewed by scientists and environmental policymakers as early…”
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Season of prescribed fire determines grassland restoration outcomes after fire exclusion and overgrazing by Novak, Erin N., Bertelsen, Michelle, Davis, Dick, Grobert, Devin M., Lyons, Kelly G., Martina, Jason P., McCaw, W. Matt, O'Toole, Matthew, Veldman, Joseph W.

“…Fire exclusion and mismanaged grazing are globally important drivers of environmental change in mesic C4 grasslands and savannas. Although interest is growing…”
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Land-use history and contemporary management inform an ecological reference model for longleaf pine woodland understory plant communities by Brudvig, Lars A, Orrock, John L, Damschen, Ellen I, Collins, Cathy D, Hahn, Philip G, Mattingly, W Brett, Veldman, Joseph W, Walker, Joan L

“…Ecological restoration is frequently guided by reference conditions describing a successfully restored ecosystem; however, the causes and magnitude of…”
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Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people by Fleischman, Forrest, Coleman, Eric, Fischer, Harry, Kashwan, Prakash, Pfeifer, Marion, Ramprasad, Vijay, Rodriguez Solorzano, Claudia, Veldman, Joseph W.

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Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions by FLEISCHMAN, FORREST, BASANT, SHISHIR, CHHATRE, ASHWINI, COLEMAN, ERIC A., FISCHER, HARRY W., GUPTA, DIVYA, GÜNERALP, BURAK, KASHWAN, PRAKASH, KHATRI, DIL, MUSCARELLA, ROBERT, POWERS, JENNIFER S., RAMPRASAD, VIJAY, RANA, PUSHPENDRA, SOLORZANO, CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ, VELDMAN, JOSEPH W.

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Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by VELDMAN, JOSEPH W., OVERBECK, GERHARD E., NEGREIROS, DANIEL, MAHY, GREGORY, STRADIC, SOIZIG LE, FERNANDES, G. WILSON, DURIGAN, GISELDA, BUISSON, ELISE, PUTZ, FRANCIS E., BOND, WILLIAM J.

“…Misperceptions about the world’s grassy biomes contribute to their alarming rates of loss due to conversion for agriculture and tree plantations, as well as to…”
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Reproducible protocol for the extraction and semi-automated quantification of macroscopic charcoal from soil by Ruiz-Pérez, Javier, Aleman, Julie C, Veldman, Joseph W

“…Charcoal fragments preserved in soils or sediments are used by scientists to reconstruct fire histories and thereby improve our understanding of past…”
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Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands by Buisson, Elise, Le Stradic, Soizig, Silveira, Fernando A. O., Durigan, Giselda, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Fidelis, Alessandra, Fernandes, G. Wilson, Bond, William J., Hermann, Julia‐Maria, Mahy, Gregory, Alvarado, Swanni T., Zaloumis, Nicholas P., Veldman, Joseph W.

“…ABSTRACT Despite growing recognition of the conservation values of grassy biomes, our understanding of how to maintain and restore biodiverse tropical…”
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Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India by Nerlekar, Ashish N., Munje, Avishkar, Mhaisalkar, Pranav, Hiremath, Ankila J., Veldman, Joseph W.

“…Abstract The consequences of land‐use change for savanna biodiversity remain undocumented in most regions of tropical Asia. One such region is western…”
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Comment on “The global tree restoration potential” by Veldman, Joseph W., Aleman, Julie C., Alvarado, Swanni T., Anderson, T. Michael, Archibald, Sally, Bond, William J., Boutton, Thomas W., Buchmann, Nina, Buisson, Elise, Canadell, Josep G., Dechoum, Michele de Sá, Diaz-Toribio, Milton H., Durigan, Giselda, Ewel, John J., Fernandes, G. Wilson, Fidelis, Alessandra, Fleischman, Forrest, Good, Stephen P., Griffith, Daniel M., Hermann, Julia-Maria, Hoffmann, William A., Le Stradic, Soizig, Lehmann, Caroline E. R., Mahy, Gregory, Nerlekar, Ashish N., Nippert, Jesse B., Noss, Reed F., Osborne, Colin P., Overbeck, Gerhard E., Parr, Catherine L., Pausas, Juli G., Pennington, R. Toby, Perring, Michael P., Putz, Francis E., Ratnam, Jayashree, Sankaran, Mahesh, Schmidt, Isabel B., Schmitt, Christine B., Silveira, Fernando A. O., Staver, A. Carla, Stevens, Nicola, Still, Christopher J., Strömberg, Caroline A. E., Temperton, Vicky M., Varner, J. Morgan, Zaloumis, Nicholas P.

“…Bastin et al .’s estimate (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) that tree planting for climate change mitigation could sequester 205 gigatonnes of carbon is…”
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Step back from the forest and step up to the Bonn Challenge: how a broad ecological perspective can promote successful landscape restoration by Temperton, Vicky M., Buchmann, Nina, Buisson, Elise, Durigan, Giselda, Kazmierczak, Łukasz, Perring, Michael P., Sá Dechoum, Michele, Veldman, Joseph W., Overbeck, Gerhard E.

“…We currently face both an extinction and a biome crisis embedded in a changing climate. Many biodiverse ecosystems are being lost at far higher rates than they…”
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Tyranny of trees in grassy biomes by Veldman, Joseph W., Overbeck, Gerhard E., Negreiros, Daniel, Mahy, Gregory, Le Stradic, Soizig, Fernandes, G. Wilson, Durigan, Giselda, Buisson, Elise, Putz, Francis E., Bond, William J.

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Grass-dominated vegetation, not species-diverse natural savanna, replaces degraded tropical forests on the southern edge of the Amazon Basin by Veldman, Joseph W., Putz, Francis E.

“…Changes in land-uses, fire regimes, and climate are expected to promote savanna expansion in the Amazon Basin, but most studies that come to this conclusion…”
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Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration by Silveira, Fernando A. O., Ordóñez‐Parra, Carlos A., Moura, Livia C., Schmidt, Isabel B., Andersen, Alan N., Bond, William, Buisson, Elise, Durigan, Giselda, Fidelis, Alessandra, Oliveira, Rafael S., Parr, Catherine, Rowland, Lucy, Veldman, Joseph W., Pennington, R. Toby

“…We introduce the concept of Biome Awareness Disparity (BAD)—defined as a failure to appreciate the significance of all biomes in conservation and restoration…”
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How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe by Erdős, László, Török, Péter, Veldman, Joseph W., Bátori, Zoltán, Bede‐Fazekas, Ákos, Magnes, Martin, Kröel‐Dulay, György, Tölgyesi, Csaba

“…ABSTRACT Recent advances in ecology and biogeography demonstrate the importance of fire and large herbivores – and challenge the primacy of climate – to our…”
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Natural climate solutions for the United States by Fargione, Joseph E, Bassett, Steven, Boucher, Timothy, Bridgham, Scott D, Conant, Richard T, Cook-Patton, Susan C, Ellis, Peter W, Falcucci, Alessandra, Fourqurean, James W, Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Gu, Huan, Henderson, Benjamin, Hurteau, Matthew D, Kroeger, Kevin D, Kroeger, Timm, Lark, Tyler J, Leavitt, Sara M, Lomax, Guy, McDonald, Robert I, Megonigal, J Patrick, Miteva, Daniela A, Richardson, Curtis J, Sanderman, Jonathan, Shoch, David, Spawn, Seth A, Veldman, Joseph W, Williams, Christopher A, Woodbury, Peter B, Zganjar, Chris, Baranski, Marci, Elias, Patricia, Houghton, Richard A, Landis, Emily, McGlynn, Emily, Schlesinger, William H, Siikamaki, Juha V, Sutton-Grier, Ariana E, Griscom, Bronson W

“…Limiting climate warming to <2°C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood…”
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Spreaders, igniters, and burning shrubs: plant flammability explains novel fire dynamics in grass-invaded deserts by Fuentes-Ramirez, Andres, Veldman, Joseph W., Holzapfel, Claus, Moloney, Kirk A.

“…Novel fire regimes are an important cause and consequence of global environmental change that involve interactions among biotic, climatic, and human components…”
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