Conservation with elevated elephant densities sequesters carbon in soils despite losses of woody biomass

Woody vegetation damage by the African elephant during severe drought at Pongola Game Reserve, South Africa

(2020) Reece Thornley et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The effects of climate on decomposition of cattle, sheep and goat manure in Kenyan tropical pastures

(2020) Yuhao Zhu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

(2020) Allie Goldstein et al.   Nature Climate Change

Transfrontier Conservation Areas and Human-Wildlife Conflict: The Case of the Namibian Component of the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA

(2020) Mirja Stoldt et al.   Scientific Reports

Chemical parameters of decomposing dung in tropical forest as indicators of feeding behaviour of large herbivores: A step beyond classical stoichiometry

(2020) E. Chaudhary et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Woody encroachment and related soil properties in different tenure-based management systems of semiarid rangelands

(2020) Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann et al.   GEODERMA

Ecosystem-level carbon storage and its links to diversity, structural and environmental drivers in tropical forests of Western Ghats, India

(2020) Subashree Kothandaraman et al.   Scientific Reports

Co-benefits of soil carbon protection for invertebrate conservation

(2020) Angelli Flores-Rios et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Elephants limit aboveground carbon gains in African savannas

(2019) Andrew B. Davies et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Characterising the biophysical, economic and social impacts of soil carbon sequestration as a greenhouse gas removal technology

(2019) Alasdair J. Sykes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimation of gut passage time of wild, free roaming forest elephants

(2019) Christopher Beirne et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal

(2019) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluating the effectiveness of local- and regional-scale wildlife corridors using quantitative metrics of functional connectivity

(2018) R. Naidoo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Elephant-mediated compositional changes in riparian canopy trees over more than two decades in northern Botswana

(2018) Gabriella Teren et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Better estimates of soil carbon from geographical data: a revised global approach

(2018) Sandra Duarte-Guardia et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?

(2018) Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Opinion: Soil carbon sequestration is an elusive climate mitigation tool

(2018) Ronald Amundson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatial redistribution of nutrients by large herbivores and dung beetles in a savanna ecosystem

(2017) Michiel P. Veldhuis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

(2017) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A systematic review of elephant impact across Africa

(2017) Robert A. R. Guldemond et al.   PLoS One

The consequences of replacing wildlife with livestock in Africa

(2017) Gareth P. Hempson et al.   Scientific Reports

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

(2017) Rodolfo C. R. Abreu et al.   Science Advances

Woody plant biomass and carbon exchange depend on elephant-fire interactions across a productivity gradient in African savanna

(2016) Adam F. A. Pellegrini et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Determining Soil Bulk Density for Carbon Stock Calculations: A Systematic Method Comparison

(2016) Katja Walter et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Above- and Belowground Biomass Models for Trees in the Miombo Woodlands of Malawi

(2016) Daud Kachamba et al.   Forests

Soil health and carbon management

(2016) Rattan Lal   Food and Energy Security

Global patterns of the effects of land-use changes on soil carbon stocks

(2016) Lei Deng et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Ecosystem-scale effects of megafauna in African savannas

(2015) Gregory P. Asner et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Elephant-mediated habitat modifications and changes in herbivore species assemblages in Sabi Sand, South Africa

(2015) Willem F. de Boer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Caught in a human disturbance trap: Responses of tropical savanna trees to increasing land-use pressure

(2015) Oumarou Ouédraogo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Rangeland management effects on soil properties in the savanna biome, South Africa: A case study along grazing gradients in communal and commercial farms

(2015) A. Sandhage-Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Simplification of the composition, diversity and structure of woody vegetation in a semi-arid African savanna reserve following the re-introduction of elephants

(2014) T.G. O’Connor et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional attributes of savanna soils: contrasting effects of tree canopies and herbivores on bulk density, nutrients and moisture dynamics

(2014) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Soil organic matter pools in a tropical savanna under agroforestry system in Northeastern Brazil

(2014) Luiz Fernando Carvalho Leite et al.   REVISTA ARVORE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

An analysis of structure: biomass structure relationships for characteristic species of the western Kalahari, Botswana

(2013) Thoralf Meyer et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Carbon accumulation and nitrogen pool recovery during transitions from savanna to forest in central Brazil

(2013) Adam F. A. Pellegrini et al.   ECOLOGY

Interactions between C : N : P stoichiometry and soil macrofauna control dung decomposition of savanna herbivores

(2013) Judith Sitters et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rangeland management impacts on the properties of clayey soils along grazing gradients in the semi-arid grassland biome of South Africa

(2013) E. Kotzé et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Contrasts in the large herbivore faunas of the southern continents in the late Pleistocene and the ecological implications for human origins

(2013) Norman Owen-Smith   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Lateral Diffusion of Nutrients by Mammalian Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2013) Adam Wolf et al.   PLoS One

Relationships between diameter and height of trees in natural tropical forest in Tanzania

(2013) Wilson A Mugasha et al.   Southern Forests

15N isoscapes in a subtropical savanna parkland: spatial-temporal perspectives

(2013) Edith Bai et al.   Ecosphere

Tree biomass and soil organic carbon densities across the Sudanese woodland savannah: A regional carbon sequestration study

(2012) S.A. Alam et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Herbivore trampling as an alternative pathway for explaining differences in nitrogen mineralization in moist grasslands

(2012) Maarten Schrama et al.   OECOLOGIA

Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

(2011) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Above- and Belowground Carbon Stocks in a Miombo Woodland Landscape of Mozambique

(2011) Casey M. Ryan et al.   BIOTROPICA

Aggregate dynamics and associated soil organic matter contents as influenced by prolonged arable cropping in the South African Highveld

(2011) Ingo Lobe et al.   GEODERMA

Elephants (and extinct relatives) as earth-movers and ecosystem engineers

(2011) Gary Haynes   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotope composition in plant and soil in Southern Patagonia's native forests

(2011) Pablo L. Peri et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial variation of soil δ13C and its relation to carbon input and soil texture in a subtropical lowland woodland

(2011) Edith Bai et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Land Cover, Extent, and Properties of Arenosols in Southern Africa

(2008) Alfred E. Hartemink et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Isolation of African protected areas

(2008) William D Newmark   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT