Ecology of grazing lawns in Africa

Restricted habitat use by an African savanna herbivore through the seasonal cycle: key resources concept expanded

(2014) K. Yoganand et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Restoration of a megaherbivore: landscape-level impacts of white rhinoceros in Kruger National Park, South Africa

(2014) Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Distinct Physiological Responses Underlie Defoliation Tolerance in African Lawn and Bunch Grasses

(2013) T. Michael Anderson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

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

The ongoing development of a pragmatic and adaptive fire management policy in a large African savanna protected area

(2013) Brian W. van Wilgen et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

An integrated perspective to explain nitrogen mineralization in grazed ecosystems

(2013) Maarten Schrama et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Effects of differential grazing on decomposition rate and nitrogen availability in a productive mountain grassland

(2013) María Victoria Vaieretti et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Responses of savanna lawn and bunch grasses to water limitation

(2013) Fons van der Plas et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Long-term stability of grazing lawns in a small protected area, the Mountain Zebra National Park

(2013) Peter Novellie et al.   KOEDOE

Impacts of high utilisation pressure on biodiversity components inColophospermum mopanesavanna

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

Top-down determinants of niche structure and adaptation among African Acacias

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2012) Maarten Schrama et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional Resource Heterogeneity Increases Livestock and Rangeland Productivity

(2012) Richard W.S. Fynn   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Effects of Erosion from Mounds of Different Termite Genera on Distinct Functional Grassland Types in an African Savannah

(2011) Cleo M. Gosling et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Large herbivores may alter vegetation structure of semi-arid savannas through soil nutrient mediation

(2011) Cornelis van der Waal et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do grazers alter nitrogen dynamics on grazing lawns in a South African savannah?

(2010) Corli Coetsee et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Does decomposition of standard materials differ among grassland patches maintained by livestock?

(2010) MARÍA VICTORIA VAIERETTI et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Tasmanian lentic wetland lawns are maintained by grazing rather than inundation

(2010) CYNTHIA ROBERTS et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Landscape-scale analyses suggest both nutrient and antipredator advantages to Serengeti herbivore hotspots

(2010) T. Michael Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY

Variation in the effects of vertebrate grazing on fire potential between grassland structural types

(2010) Steve Leonard et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effects of cattle trampling on vegetation, infiltration, and erosion in a tropical rangeland

(2010) T. Dunne et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Challenges of foraging on a high-quality but unpredictable food source: the dynamics of grass production and consumption in savanna grazing lawns

(2010) Olivier Bonnet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resource partitioning by grass height among grazing ungulates does not follow body size relation

(2010) Randal Arsenault et al.   OIKOS

Resource partitioning along multiple niche dimensions in differently sized African savanna grazers

(2010) Elizabeth J. Kleynhans et al.   OIKOS

Nitrogen availability in a grazed semi-arid grassland is dominated by seasonal rainfall

(2010) Marcus Giese et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nutrition integrates environmental responses of ungulates

(2009) Katherine L. Parker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in soil characteristics and grass layer condition in relation to land management systems in the semi-arid savannas of Swaziland

(2009) Solomon Tefera et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Combined effects of soil moisture and nitrogen availability variations on grass productivity in African savannas

(2009) Lixin Wang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant performance in stressful environments: interpreting new and established knowledge of the roles of arbuscular mycorrhizas

(2009) Sally E. Smith et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Herbivore and nutrient control of lawn and bunch grass distributions in a southern African savanna

(2009) William D. Stock et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

(2008) Corinna Riginos et al.   ECOLOGY

Improved quality of beneath-canopy grass in South African savannas: Local and seasonal variation

(2008) Anna C. Treydte et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

African Grazing Lawns—How Fire, Rainfall, and Grazer Numbers Interact to Affect Grass Community States

(2008) S. Archibald   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Nutrient concentration ratios and co-limitation in South African grasslands

(2008) Joseph M. Craine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dynamics of grazing lawn formation: an experimental test of the role of scale-dependent processes

(2008) Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et al.   OIKOS

Rotational Grazing on Rangelands: Reconciliation of Perception and Experimental Evidence

(2008) D.D. Briske et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Predator-prey size relationships in an African large-mammal food web

(2007) Norman Owen-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Acacia species turnover in space and time in an African savanna

(2003) William J. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY