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Relationships Between Cattle and Biodiversity in Multiuse Landscape Revealed by Kenya Long-Term Exclosure Experiment
(Elsevier, 2018-05)
On rangelands worldwide, cattle interact with many forms of biodiversity, most obviously with vegetation and other large herbivores. Since 1995, we have been manipulating the presence of cattle, mesoherbivores, and ...
Evidence of nutrient translocation in response to smoke exposure by the East African ant acacia, Vachellia drepanolobium
(Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2021-09)
1. Fire is a major selective force on arid grassland communities, favoring traits such as the smoke-induced seed germination response seen in a wide variety of plant species. However, little is known about the relevance ...
Synergistic effects of long-term herbivory and previous fire on fine-scale heterogeneity of prescribed grassland burns
(Ecology, 2020-10)
Grassland and savanna ecosystems, important for both livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, are strongly affected by ecosystem drivers such as herbivory, fire, and drought. Interactions among fire, herbivores and ...