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

F Siebert, N Dreber - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Savannas are commonly described as a vegetation type with a grass layer interspersed with
a discontinuous tree or shrub layer. On the contrary, forbs, a plant life form that can include …

Large herbivore responses to surface water and land use in an East African savanna: implications for conservation and human-wildlife conflicts

JO Ogutu, RS Reid, HP Piepho, NT Hobbs… - Biodiversity and …, 2014 - Springer
Water, forage and predation constrain ungulate distributions in savannas. To understand
these constraints, we characterized distributions of 15 herbivore species from water …

Modeling the drivers of large herbivore distribution in human‐dominated southern African savannas

DV Roque, T Göttert, U Zeller, VA Macandza - Ecosphere, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
African savanna ecosystems are home to the world's richest large herbivore (LH)
assemblages. However, its landscapes are changing faster than any other region on Earth …

Origin, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography of early Bovini

F Bibi - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2007 - Elsevier
The earliest Bovini have until now been reported from between 7 and 6 Ma from Africa. It has
long been known that Bovini originated from “Boselaphini”, a paraphyletic assemblage of …
N Owen-Smith, J Martin, K Yoganand - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Niche separation among species with similar resource requirements can be expressed at
various spatiotemporal scales, from the resource components selected at feeding sites to …