Drivers of post-fire Nothofagus antarctica forest recovery in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina by Matthew Joseph Ruggirello, Gimena Bustamante, Peter Z. Fulé, Rosina Soler

“…Currently, these burned areas resemble grasslands or savannas. They do not provide the habitat or ecosystem services that denser forests do and may require active restoration to fully recover their pre-fire characteristics.…”
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Three-dimensional niche partitioning between two colonially nesting ardeid species in central China by Yuanxing Ye, Canshi Hu, Yiting Jiang, Geoffrey W. H. Davison, Changqing Ding

“…The foraging habitats used by Little Egrets were dominated by river banks (73.49%), followed by paddy fields (13.25%) and reservoirs (10.84%), whereas Cattle Egret foraging sites were characterized by grasslands (44.44%), paddy fields (33.33%) and river banks (22.22%). …”
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Regeneration from seeds in a temperate native flora: A climate‐smart and natural–capital‐driven germination risk modelling approach by Efisio Mattana, Ted Chapman, Stephanie Miles, Tiziana Ulian, Angelino Carta

“…The effects of these climatic changes can already be seen in forests and grasslands, agricultural fields and even in our own gardens, as native plants try to keep pace with them. …”
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Nisin E Is a Novel Nisin Variant Produced by Multiple <i>Streptococcus equinus</i> Strains by Ivan Sugrue, Daragh Hill, Paula M. O’Connor, Li Day, Catherine Stanton, Colin Hill, R. Paul Ross

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Relationship between ecological spatial network and vegetation carbon use efficiency in the Yellow River Basin, China by Chenglong Xu, Xiang Chen, Qiang Yu, Buyanbaatar Avirmed, Jikai Zhao, Wei Liu, Weijie Sun

“…Furthermore, the Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) method and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model were employed to delineate ecological sources for woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands, while the Minimum Cumulative Resistance (MCR) model was used to identify ecological corridors, forming an ecological spatial network within the YRB. …”
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Estimating Urban Evapotranspiration at 10m Resolution Using Vegetation Information from Sentinel-2: A Case Study for the Beijing Sponge City by Xuanze Zhang, Peilin Song

“…For different LCCs, lakes and rivers have the highest ET (≥8 mm d⁻¹), followed by mixed forests and croplands (ET is 4–6 mm d⁻¹ and LAI is 2–3 m² m⁻²) with dominant contribution (>80%) from plant transpiration, while grasslands (2–4 mm d⁻¹) have 50–70% from transpiration due to smaller LAI (1~2 m² m⁻²). …”
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Effects of Dairy Lambs’ Rearing System and Slaughter Age on Consumer Liking of Lamb Meat and Its Association with Lipid Content and Composition by Enrique Pavan, Susan A. McCoard, Michael Agnew, Renyu Zhang, Kevin Taukiri, Mustafa M. Farouk, Carolina E. Realini

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Uncovering extensive populations of the ‘threatened’ Black Crowned Cranes in Gambella, Ethiopia by Abebayehu Aticho, Abebe Beyene, Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew, Changkuoth Puok, Kerryn Morrison, Tariku Mekonnen Gutema, Desalegn Chala

“…However, to obtain an accurate population estimate in this region, it is imperative to include seasonal wetlands, savannah grasslands, farmlands and the extended wetlands of South Sudan, which are hydrologically connected to the wetlands of Gambella region. …”
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How Did the Mild and Humid Areas of China Turn Green? A Case Study on Chongqing by Yiting Zuo, Jie Cheng, Hongjie Zhang, Feng Tang, Meichen Fu

“…The analysis results of the complex network model showed that woodlands and grasslands contributed more to areas where the vegetation cover exhibited an increasing trend. …”
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De novo transcriptome assembly of a Chinese locoweed (Oxytropis ochrocephala) species provides insights into genes associated with drought, salinity and cold tolerance by Wei eHe, Huihui eZhuang, Yanping eFu, Linwei eGuo, Bin eGuo, Lizhu eGuo, Xiuhong eZhang, Yahui eWei

“…Background: Locoweeds (toxic Oxytropis and Astraglus species), containing the toxic agent swainsonine, pose serious threats to animal husbandry on grasslands in both China and the US. Some locoweeds have evolved adaptations in order to resist various stress conditions such as drought, salt and cold. …”
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You are what you eat: fungal metabolites and host plant affect the susceptibility of diamondback moth to entomopathogenic fungi by Sereyboth Soth, Travis R. Glare, John G. Hampton, Stuart D. Card, Jenny J. Brookes, Josefina O. Narciso

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Can a Hierarchical Classification of Sentinel-2 Data Improve Land Cover Mapping? by Adam Waśniewski, Agata Hościło, Milena Chmielewska

“…Despite a considerable number of approaches towards land cover classification based on satellite data, there is still a challenge to clearly separate complex land cover classes, for example grasslands, arable land and wetlands. The aim of this study is to examine, whether a hierarchal classification of Sentinel-2 data can improve the accuracy of land cover mapping and delineation of complex land cover classes. …”
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The Value of L-Band Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Estimates in the Prediction of Vegetation Phenology by Bonan Li, Stephen P. Good, Dawn R. URycki

“…SMAP SM and VOD made the more improvement in model fit in grasslands (R² = 0.24 vs. 0.16 and ubRMSE = 0.118 vs. 0.126 [5.7% reduction] for models with and without SM and VOD, respectively); model predictions were least improved in shrublands. …”
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Land cover and NDVI are important predictors in habitat selection along migration for the Golden-crowned Sparrow, a temperate-zone migrating songbird by Autumn R. Iverson, Diana L. Humple, Renée L. Cormier, Josh Hull

“…Birds traveled to breeding grounds in Alaska and British Columbia along coastal routes, selecting for shrubland and higher vegetation greenness in both migration seasons as well as grasslands during fall migration. However, model interactions showed they selected sites with lower levels of greenness when in forest (both seasons) and shrubland (fall only), which may reflect their preference for more open habitats or represent a trade-off in selection between habitat type and productivity. …”
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Voluntary Oral Ingestion of a Sedative Prior to Euthanasia with CO₂: Behavioural Responses of Mice by Raquel Rodriguez-Sanchez, Elyssa Barnaby, Lucia Améndola, Shen-Yan Hea, Bobby Smith, James Webster, Gosia Zobel

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Towards evenly distributed grazing patterns: including social context in sheep management strategies by Agustina di Virgilio, Juan Manuel Morales

“…A large proportion of natural grasslands around the world is exposed to overgrazing resulting in land degradation and biodiversity loss. …”
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What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar? by Brooke Erin Crowley, Laurie Rohde Godfrey, Karen Elizabeth Samonds

“…Some researchers have argued that the island's now‐extinct pygmy hippopotamuses belonged to a megaherbivore grazing guild that maintained these grasslands prior to human arrival. However, the chemistry of hippo bones indicates that C4 grasses were only a minor part of hippo diet. …”
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Cross-species transcriptomics identifies core regulatory changes differentiating the asymptomatic asexual and virulent sexual life cycles of grass-symbiotic <i>Epichloë</i> fungi by Daniel Berry, Kate Lee, David Winter, Wade Mace, Yvonne Becker, Padmaja Nagabhyru, Artemis D Treindl, Esteban Valverde Bogantes, Carolyn A Young, Adrian Leuchtmann, Linda J Johnson, Richard D Johnson, Murray P Cox, Christopher L Schardl, Barry Scott

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Escape from the garden: spreading, effects and traits of a new risky invasive ornamental plant (Gaillardia aristata Pursh) by Gabriella Süle, Zsombor Miholcsa, Csaba Molnár, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, Annamária Fenesi, Norbert Bauer, Viktor Szigeti

“…G. aristata usually appeared close to gardens and ruderal habitats, but also in semi-natural and natural grasslands and tended to spread better in sandy soils. …”
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Global distribution, climatic preferences and photosynthesis‐related traits of C4 eudicots and how they differ from those of C4 grasses by Jessica A. Berasategui, Anže Žerdoner Čalasan, Alexander Zizka, Gudrun Kadereit

“…In general, C4 eudicots are diverse in deserts and xeric shrublands, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands. We found C4 eudicots to occur in areas with less annual precipitation than C4 grasses which can be explained by frequently associated adaptations to drought stress such as among others succulence and salt tolerance. …”
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