Roughly 40 percent of Earth's land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth's terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

According to a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on 8 August 2016, the tropical grassy biome (TGB) with the greatest variety of flora (based on vascular plants) is ...

A global satellite analysis identified weakening resilience and vegetation reorganization in 27% of terrestrial ecoregions, ...

In the 1960s, the Forest Department planted a thorned, fast-growing legume across the arid expanses of Kutch to hold the soil ...

The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant diversity and plant biomass in the world's grasslands, a new study shows.

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. Kobe University's finding underscores the ...