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000169366 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1038/s41559-025-02952-9
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000169366 041__ $$aeng
000169366 100__ $$aBiancari, Lucio
000169366 245__ $$aPlant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands
000169366 260__ $$c2026
000169366 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted
000169366 5203_ $$aUnderstanding the mechanisms that shape ecosystem resistance to increasing livestock grazing pressure, a major driver of land degradation, is essential for predicting its impacts and informing sustainable land management strategies. This issue is particularly relevant in drylands, which host half of the world’s livestock production and are highly vulnerable to desertification caused by overgrazing. Here we conduct a standardized field survey across 73 dryland sites in 25 countries to simultaneously evaluate how climatic, edaphic, vegetation and grazing-related factors influence ecosystem resistance—defined here as the capacity to maintain vegetation cover under increasing grazing pressure. We found that increasing grazing pressure reduced vegetation cover in 80% of sites, with an average decline of 35%. Plant species richness emerged as the strongest predictor of ecosystem resistance, with higher richness associated with lower vegetation cover loss. Functional trait data indicated that this positive effect was mainly explained by complementarity in trait values among plants, rather than by functional redundancy. Our results indicate that conserving plant diversity is key to strengthening ecosystem resistance and sustaining dryland functioning under intensifying grazing pressure.
000169366 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/CNS2024-154579$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2022-140398NA-I00$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/647038/EU/Biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change: a new perspective on dryland desertification/BIODESERT$$9This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 647038-BIODESERT
000169366 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess$$aAll rights reserved$$uhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/
000169366 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
000169366 700__ $$aOñatibia, Gastón R.
000169366 700__ $$aLe Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann
000169366 700__ $$aGross, Nicolas
000169366 700__ $$aYahdjian, Laura
000169366 700__ $$aAguiar, Martín R.
000169366 700__ $$aSaiz, Hugo$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000169366 700__ $$aEldridge, David J.
000169366 700__ $$aValencia, Enrique
000169366 700__ $$aMoreira, Xoaquín
000169366 700__ $$aOchoa, Victoria
000169366 700__ $$aGozalo, Beatriz
000169366 700__ $$aAsensio, Sergio
000169366 700__ $$aPlaza, César
000169366 700__ $$aGuirado, Emilio
000169366 700__ $$aGarcía-Gómez, Miguel
000169366 700__ $$aGaitán, Juan J.
000169366 700__ $$aMartínez-Valderrama, Jaime
000169366 700__ $$aMendoza, Betty J.
000169366 700__ $$aMaestre, Fernando T.
000169366 7102_ $$15011$$2220$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. CC.Agrar.y Medio Natural$$cÁrea Ecología
000169366 773__ $$g10 (2026), 258-266$$tNature Ecology and Evolution$$x2397-334X
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