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 …

Establishing exclosures has become common in Ethiopia, especially in the central and
northern highlands, where they serve as a response to persistent forest degradation …

Herbivores are a main driver of ecosystem patterns and processes in semi-arid savannas,
with their effects clearly observed when they are excluded from landscapes. Starting in the …

Introduction An area exclosure is the practice of land management that involves the
exclusion of livestock and humans from openly accessing an area that is characterized by …

Fires and grazing disrupt the diversity and composition of biological organisms and their
functions in the savannas. In the current study, we assessed the impact of fire and grazing …

To identify factors that drive plant species richness in South-African savanna and explore
their relative importance, we sampled plant communities across habitats differing in water …

Soil arthropods are important components of savannas, contributing to nutrient cycling and
thus primary productivity. To investigate how fire and mammalian herbivores influence …

Fire and herbivory are important natural disturbances in grassy biomes. Both drivers are
likely to influence belowground microbial communities but no studies have unravelled the …

Identifying and delineating groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) is critical in
understanding their location, distribution and groundwater allocation. However, this …

Ecological models to explain savanna heterogeneity and functioning weakly represent
herbaceous forbs, which inevitably created knowledge gaps regarding the diversity and …