Woody plant encroachment restructures bird communities in semiarid grasslands

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• animal community 18%
• bird 69%
• bird species 15%
• breeding bird 54%
• distribution 29%
• generalist 15%
• grassland 68%
• grassland ecosystem 16%
• restoration 10%
• savanna 14%
• semiarid region 14%
• shrub 37%
• spatial variation 11%
• species richness 23%
• transform 10%
• vegetation 8%
• woody plant 100%

Agriculture & Biology

• birds 50%
• breeding 21%
• ecosystems 8%
• grasslands 71%
• ground cover plants 15%
• Prosopis 31%
• savannas 11%
• shrubs 30%
• spatial variation 12%
• species recruitment 10%
• species richness 20%
• vegetation 8%
• woody plants 86%