A comprehensive assessment of the effects of climate change on global grasslands and the mitigating role that ecologists can play.

Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book will illustra

This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy

This book contains 28 chapters with emphasis on the interactive nature of the relationships between the soil, plant, animal and environmental components of gras

Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders' livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are t