02666naa a2200313 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902200240006002400280008410000180011224501050013026000090023550007730024452009920101765300140200965300120202365300130203565300310204865300140207965300130209365300150210665300150212165300130213670000150214970000160216470000190218070000160219977301370221510641972023-06-15       2023    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a1654-109X (online).7 a10.1111/avsc.127222DOI1 aTOMMASINO, A.  aRangeland resilience to droughtsbChanges across an intensification gradient.h[electronic resource]  c2023  aArticle history: Received 28 October 2022, Revised 3 March 2023, Accepted 7 March 2023, First published 17 March 2023. -- Correspondence author: Andrea Tommasino, Instituto de Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, Montevideo, Uruguay. Email: atommasino@fcien.edu.uy -- Co-ordinating Editor: David J. Eldridge. -- This article is a part of the Special Issue Grazing and Vegetation, edited by Péter Török, Regina Lindborg, David Eldridge and Robin Pakeman. -- Funding: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación22(POS_NAC_2019_1_157179), Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA)and Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica (CSIC Grupos 2018, ID 71). -- Supporting information.  aABSTRACT.- Aim: The intensification of livestock systems generates structural and functional changes in native grassland, which alter their capacity to respond to disturbances. Our objective was to evaluate the resilience to an extraordinary consecutive-droughts event, across an intensification gradient of livestock systems. Our prediction was that sites with more intensive management (less diverse) will have lower resilience (as resistance and/or recovery) to drought. Location: South-central region of Uruguay. Conclusion: Our research supports the insurance hypothesis by demonstrating that farms with greater biodiversity (less intensive management) have higher resistance to drought. We found that species richness is not enough to account for the effect of diversity on resilience. Our results emphasize the importance of preserving grassland biodiversity to maintain resilient ecosystems in the face of climate change. © 2023 International Association for Vegetation Science.  aDiversity  aDrought  aEvenness  aNative temperate grassland  aRangeland  aRecovery  aResilience  aResistance  aRichness1 aLEZAMA, F.1 aGALLEGO, F.1 aCAMBA SANS, G.1 aPARUELO, J.  tApplied Vegetation Science. Special Issue: Grazzing and Vegetation. 2023, Vol.26, Issue2, e12722. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12722