Forb ecology research in dry African savannas: Knowledge, gaps, and future perspectives

Herbivory and drought generate short-term stochasticity and long-term stability in a savanna understory community

(2018) Corinna Riginos et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Herbaceous responses to herbivory, fire and rainfall variability differ between grasses and forbs

(2018) H. Van Coller et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Diversity and occurrence of herbaceous communities in West African savannas in relation to climate, land use and habitat

(2017) Issouf Zerbo et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Termite mounds vary in their importance as sources of vegetation heterogeneity across savanna landscapes

(2017) Justice Muvengwi et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Vegetation, Wildlife, and Livestock Responses to Planned Grazing Management in an African Pastoral Landscape

(2017) Wilfred O. Odadi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Aridity weakens population-level effects of multiple species interactions onHibiscus meyeri

(2017) Allison M. Louthan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Determinants of seasonal changes in availability of food patches for elephants (Loxodonta africana) in a semi-arid African savanna

(2017) Bruce W. Clegg et al.   PeerJ

Are cattle surrogate wildlife? Savanna plant community composition explained by total herbivory more than herbivore type

(2016) Kari E. Veblen et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

(2016) Nicola Stevens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in grass plant populations and temporal soil seed bank dynamics in a semi-arid African savanna: Implications for restoration

(2016) Zewdu K. Tessema et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Reforestation or conservation? The attributes of old growth grasslands in South Africa

(2016) Nicholas P. Zaloumis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Herbaceous Legume Encroachment Reduces Grass Productivity and Density in Arid Rangelands

(2016) Thomas C. Wagner et al.   PLoS One

Herbaceous biomass–species diversity relationships in nutrient hotspots of a semi-arid African riparian ecosystem

(2015) Helga van Coller et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

Are trees of intermediate density more facilitative? Canopy effects of four East African legume trees

(2015) Anja Linstädter et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Browsing intensity of herbaceous forbs across a semi-arid savanna catenal sequence

(2015) F. Siebert et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Predicting the Effects of Woody Encroachment on Mammal Communities, Grazing Biomass and Fire Frequency in African Savannas

(2015) Izak P. J. Smit et al.   PLoS One

Grazing depletes forb species diversity in the mesic grasslands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2014) Rob Scott-Shaw et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

The impact of livestock grazing on plant diversity: an analysis across dryland ecosystems and scales in southern Africa

(2014) Wiebke Hanke et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands

(2014) Sally E. Koerner et al.   ECOLOGY

Impact of Community Conservation Management on Herbaceous Layer and Soil Nutrients in a Kenyan Semi-Arid Savannah

(2014) Stephen M. Mureithi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa

(2014) Stephanie Eby et al.   OECOLOGIA

Are There Consistent Grazing Indicators in Drylands? Testing Plant Functional Types of Various Complexity in South Africa’s Grassland and Savanna Biomes

(2014) Anja Linstädter et al.   PLoS One

Mechanisms of plant-plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah

(2014) A. M. Louthan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large herbivores favour species diversity but have mixed impacts on phylogenetic community structure in an African savanna ecosystem

(2013) Kowiyou Yessoufou et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Herbivory and drought interact to enhance spatial patterning and diversity in a savanna understory

(2013) Lauren M. Porensky et al.   OECOLOGIA

Herbaceous Forage and Selection Patterns by Ungulates across Varying Herbivore Assemblages in a South African Savanna

(2013) Anna Christina Treydte et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of heavy grazing on plant species richness: A comparison across rangeland biomes of South Africa

(2013) M.C. Rutherford et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Habitat selection by large herbivores in a southern African savanna: the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces

(2013) Deron E. Burkepile et al.   Ecosphere

Woody dominance in a semi-arid savanna rangeland – Evidence for competitive self-thinning

(2012) Tamrat A. Belay et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impacts of high utilisation pressure on biodiversity components inColophospermum mopanesavanna

(2012) MC Rutherford et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

(2012) Akira S. Mori et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Protein supplementation reduces non-grass foraging by a primary grazer

(2012) Wilfred O. Odadi et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The grazing fingerprint: Modelling species responses and trait patterns along grazing gradients in semi-arid Namibian rangelands

(2012) Dirk Wesuls et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Fire and Grazing Change Herbaceous Species Composition and Reduce Beta Diversity in the Kalahari Sand System

(2012) Gaseitsiwe S. Masunga et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

EFFECTS OF GRAZING INTENSITY AND BUSH ENCROACHMENT ON HERBACEOUS SPECIES AND RANGELAND CONDITION IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA

(2012) A. Angassa   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Walter’s two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!

(2012) David Ward et al.   OECOLOGIA

Species, functional groups and community structure in seed banks of the arid Nama Karoo: Grazing impacts and implications for rangeland restoration

(2011) Niels Dreber et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Hierarchical resource selection by impala in a savanna environment

(2011) JORISTA VAN DER MERWE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Influence of Grazing on Soil Seed Banks Determines the Restoration Potential of Aboveground Vegetation in a Semi-arid Savanna of Ethiopia

(2011) Zewdu K. Tessema et al.   BIOTROPICA

Empirical assessment of state-and-transition models with a long-term vegetation record from the Sonoran Desert

(2011) Sumanta Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa—a standardized framework for large-scale environmental monitoring

(2011) Norbert Jürgens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in soil nutrients, vegetation structure and herbaceous biomass in response to grazing in a semi-arid savanna of Ethiopia

(2011) Z.K. Tessema et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Disentangling plant trait responses to livestock grazing from spatio-temporal variation: the partial RLQ approach

(2011) Dirk Wesuls et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Daily temporal structure in African savanna flower visitation networks and consequences for network sampling

(2010) Katherine C. R. Baldock et al.   ECOLOGY

How best to quantify soil seed banks in arid rangelands of the Nama Karoo?

(2010) Niels Dreber   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Long-term dynamics of herbaceous vegetation structure and composition in two African savanna reserves

(2010) Robert Buitenwerf et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Spatio-temporal variation in soil seed banks under contrasting grazing regimes following low and high seasonal rainfall in arid Namibia

(2010) N. Dreber et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Short-term effects of burn season on flowering phenology of savanna plants

(2010) Noel B. Pavlovic et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

The vegetation and floristics of the Letaba exclosures, Kruger National Park, South Africa

(2010) Frances Siebert et al.   KOEDOE

Exclusion of livestock grazing and wood collection in dryland savannah: an effect on long-term vegetation succession

(2009) Pavla Hejcmanová et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Severely degraded dunes of the southern Kalahari: local extinction, persistence and natural re-establishment of plants

(2009) Michael Charles Rutherford et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant community response to loss of large herbivores: comparing consequences in a South African and a North American grassland

(2009) Catherine E. Burns et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Effects of grazing pressure, age of enclosures and seasonality on bush cover dynamics and vegetation composition in southern Ethiopia

(2009) A. Angassa et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Water and nutrients alter herbaceous competitive effects on tree seedlings in a semi-arid savanna

(2009) Cornelis van der Waal et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Why wait? Trait and habitat correlates of variation in germination speed among Kalahari annuals

(2009) Martijn Kos et al.   OECOLOGIA

Soil seed bank evaluation along a degradation gradient in arid rangelands of the Somali region, eastern Ethiopia

(2008) Amaha Kassahun et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

SAVANNA TREE DENSITY, HERBIVORES, AND THE HERBACEOUS COMMUNITY: BOTTOM-UP VS. TOP-DOWN EFFECTS

(2008) Corinna Riginos et al.   ECOLOGY

Large African herbivores decrease herbaceous plant biomass while increasing plant species richness in a semi-arid savanna toposequence

(2008) Shayne M. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS