Coastal saltmarsh distribution in Australia appears to be following a global trend of decline. In the estuaries of NSW, saltmarsh is often squeezed between landward encroachment of mangrove forest and urban/industrial development of foreshore land. Efforts to maintain and rehabilitate saltmarsh are complicated by an incomplete understanding of the hydraulic drivers for estuarine vegetation dist...

We used a multi-method approach to analyze the spatial patterns of shrubs and cover types (plant species, litter or bare soil) in grassland-shrubland ecotones. This approach allows us to assess how fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of cover types affects the patterns of Cytisus balansae shrub encroachment into mesic mountain grasslands (Catalan Pyrenees, Spain). Spatial patterns and the spatial ...

Alnus viridis is a pioneer species that has expanded in Central Europe the last decades, causing series of negative agro-environmental impacts. Robust livestock grazing could be used as targeted tool to reduce its encroachment, but more information needed find best approach achieve this goal. In study, we assessed potential molasses-based blocks (MB) lure Highland cattle into A. -encroached are...

Shrub encroachment changes the patterns of nutrition allocation in below- and aboveground soil. However, influence shrub on microbial carbon (C) nitrogen (N) limitations remains unclear. Using extracellular enzyme stoichiometry model, bulk rhizosphere soils at various soil layers were investigated non-shrub alpine grasslands (GL) shrub-encroached including Spiraea alpina lands (SA), Caragana mi...