Since the extinction of the megafauna some 45 000 to 50 000 years ago, grazing pressure
on Australian savannas has been relatively low compared to that on savannas in other …

Context. Australia has a lamentable history of mammal extinctions. Until recently, the
mammal fauna of northern Australia was presumed to have been spared such loss, and to …

Although the demography of woody plants in savannas has long been shown to be due to
many factors, there still is no consensus as to the relative importance of the top-down …

Terrestrial ecosystems are highly responsive to their local environments and, as such, the
rate of carbon uptake both in shorter and longer timescales and different spatial scales …

Aim Fire is a key agent in savanna systems, yet the capacity to predict fine‐grained
population phenomena under variable fire regime conditions at landscape scales is a …

Aim Many tropical savannas are undergoing a trend of increasing woody biomass, or 'woody
thickening'. Management to reduce fire frequency and intensity in savannas could …

Tropical savannas cover a large proportion of the Earth's land surface and many people are
dependent on the ecosystem services that savannas supply. Their sustainable management …

Trends towards earlier greenup and increased average greenness have been widely
reported in both humid and dry ecosystems. By analyzing NOAA (National Oceanic and …

A large research program in the Australian monsoon tropics has concluded that monsoon
rainforests have expanded within the savanna matrix, a trend that has been emulated …

Loss of large trees in savanna parks is of biodiversity conservation concern as trees
contribute substantially to system biomass, heterogeneity and ecological functioning. Using …