Global extent of grassland paper published in nature Ecology & Evolution

Congratulations to Andrew MacDougall and the entire team that assembled this important and incredibly important research article. The regions of earth previously classified as the “grassy biome” have always been sketchy - but this paper shows us just how bad it has been! Moreover, by correcting planetary estimates, this paper adjusts grassland coverage to 22.8% of the terrestrial land cover (30.1 million km^2) and increases soil carbon stocks to 155.02 Pg (0–30 cm depth). This paper offers a major advancement in our capacity to map biomes and predict future changes to the biosphere. See the paper here.