TY  - BOOK
TI  - Dynamics of the Global Savanna and Grassland Biomes
SN  - 9783036503486
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Basel, Switzerland
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - altitude
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - biomass
KW  - climate change
KW  - CO2 effects
KW  - community characteristics
KW  - conservation
KW  - culture
KW  - enclosure
KW  - endemism
KW  - floristics
KW  - grassland degradation
KW  - grassland management
KW  - interventions
KW  - land cover change
KW  - land degradation
KW  - livestock
KW  - management
KW  - n/a
KW  - national parks
KW  - neotropical savannas
KW  - nomadic
KW  - Payne's Creek National Park
KW  - policy
KW  - policy options
KW  - protected areas
KW  - rangeland productivity
KW  - remote sensing
KW  - restoration
KW  - rivers
KW  - rodents
KW  - SAVANNA
KW  - savanna landscapes
KW  - scenarios
KW  - simulation
KW  - support vector machine classification
KW  - temperate meadow steppe
KW  - vegetation
KW  - vegetation dynamics
KW  - watersheds
KW  - woody conversion
KW  - yaks
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Savanna and grassland biomes cover more of the earth's surface than any other biome type, and yet they are still largely understudied. In recent decades, global savanna and grassland ecosystems have become more prominent in the literature focused on global change dynamics. Savanna and grasslands represent unique biomes with their own challenges, both in terms of their study and in terms of their complexity, leading to many contradictory and often controversial findings. The global threats to these systems are potentially significant, from climate change impacts to human management challenges, from possible degradation to complete desertification, which vary across disturbance regime shifts. This Special Issue of Applied Sciences, "Dynamics of Global Savanna and Grassland Biomes", is intended for a wide and interdisciplinary audience, and covers recent advances in: - drivers of vegetation dynamics - further understanding carbon interactions in these critical landscapes - advances in modeling both current and future system states - tipping points in savanna systems - human-environment interactions and challenges for management - biodiversity and ecosystem services
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68499
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3519
ER  -