Soil organic carbon in drylands: shrub encroachment and vegetation management effects dwarf those of livestock grazing

Agriculture & Biology

• brush control 100%
• soil organic carbon 74%
• arid lands 70%
• shrubs 56%
• grazing 54%
• livestock 53%
• vegetation 48%
• land use 25%
• land cover 17%
• woody plants 13%
• grasslands 11%
• Sonoran Desert 9%
• grazing management 8%
• land management 8%
• carbon sequestration 7%
• livestock production 7%
• ecosystem services 7%
• total nitrogen 6%
• uncertainty 6%
• tree trunk 6%
• pesticide application 6%
• history 5%
• ecosystems 4%
• grasses 4%
• prediction 4%
• soil 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• livestock 62%
• shrub 59%
• grazing 57%
• organic carbon 50%
• vegetation 39%
• soil 27%
• land use 17%
• woody plant 15%
• effect 15%
• grassland 10%
• land cover 10%
• mortality 9%
• grazing management 9%
• livestock farming 8%
• carbon storage 7%
• land management 6%
• management practice 5%
• ecosystem service 5%
• grass 5%
• desert 5%
• decision 4%
• nitrogen 3%
• ecosystem 3%
• history 3%
• prediction 3%
• chemical 3%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Livestock 80%
• Soil 71%
• Carbon 64%
• Grassland 23%
• Ecosystem 18%
• Herbicides 10%
• Poaceae 10%
• Practice Management 9%
• Mortality 8%
• Nitrogen 8%
• Uncertainty 7%