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Plant and soil surface responses to a combination of shrub removal and grazing in a shrub-encroached woodland.

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Stefani Daryanto, and David J Eldridge, Plant and soil surface responses to a combination of shrub removal and grazing in a shrub-encroached woodland.: .

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Shrub encroachment into open woodland is a widespread phenomenon in semi-arid woodlands worldwide. Encroachment or woody thickening, is thought to result from overgrazing, changes in fire regimes and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Eighteen years after one-off shrub removal by ploughing we assessed the effects of four different land management systems resulting from two levels each of grazing (grazed, ungrazed) with and without ploughing, on the cover of landscape units, soil surface condition, diversity of understorey plants and density of shrubs. We recorded 2-7 times more patches under conventional conservation (unploughed-ungrazed) than the others treatments, and plant cover and diversity were greater on the [...]

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