ABSTRACT The Biosphere Reserve (BR) model of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere
Programme reflects a shift towards more accountable conservation. Biosphere Reserves …

Tropical savannas have a ground cover dominated by C4 grasses, with fire and herbivory
constraining woody cover below a rainfall‐based potential. The savanna biome covers 50 …

Woody encroachment in 'open'biomes like grasslands and savannahs is occurring globally.
Both local and global drivers, including elevated CO2, have been implicated in these …

We examine the effect of ethnic diversity on energy poverty in post-apartheid South Africa
after several decades of racial segregation. We use both ethnic fractionalisation and …

Savannas have complex, discontinuous woody vegetation structures that vary greatly in
vertical and spatial arrangement and change due to climatic, ecological and management …

ABSTRACT Objectives:(1) To evaluate how ecosystem services may be utilized to either
reinforce or fracture the planning and development practices that emerged from segregation …

With grasslands and savannas covering 20% of the world's land surface, accounting for 30–
35% of worldwide Net Primary Productivity and supporting hundreds of millions of people …

Savanna woody plants can store significant amounts of carbon while also providing
numerous other ecological and socio-economic benefits. However, they are significantly …

Increasing attention is being directed at map** the fractional woody cover of savannahs
using Earth-observation data. In this study, we test the utility of Landsat TM/ETM-based …

Structural parameters of the woody component in African savannahs provide estimates of
carbon stocks that are vital to the understanding of fuelwood reserves, which is the primary …