How spatial heterogeneity of cover affects patterns of shrub encroachment into mesic grasslands.
We used a multi-method approach to analyze the spatial patterns of shrubs and cover types (plant species, litter or bare soil) in grassland-shrubland ecotones.This approach allows us fg42 replica to assess how fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of cover types affects the patterns of Cytisus balansae shrub encroachment into mesic mountain grasslands (