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Background and aims Perennial tall-grasses have experienced a successful expansion in the last decades leading in some cases to extremely degraded communities, which remain in an alternate stable state. This research focuses on the mechanisms of persistence of the spreading native Brachypodium pinnatum in acidic soils. We hypothesize that plant-herbivory feedbacks and an adapted response to soil constraints,...