Within a region plagued by deforestation, Vietnam has experienced an exceptional
turnaround from net forest loss to forest regrowth. This so-called forest transition, starting in …

Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere Page 1 Ecosystem Services and
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The year 2011 has been the costliest ever in terms of economic losses caused by natural
disasters. This has been partly attributed to increasing natural hazard effects caused by …

Carbon-based forest conservation requires the establishment of 'reference emission levels'
against which to measure a country or region's progress in reducing their carbon emissions …

Studies of nutrient cycling in savanna ecosystems rarely consider how fluxes are affected by
local variations in tree density and nutrient redistribution by herbivores. We studied how the …

Most grassland communities in agricultural landscapes comprise a mix of exotic and native
plants, where grasses and forbs are disposed in low diversity patches conforming a …

Our current understanding of the vertebrate communities of a newly gazetted Tanzanian
coastal national park is limited and strongly taxonomically biased towards large mammals …

Questions: What factors influence the density, size and growth form of trees in secondary
Acacia zanzibarica woodlands on a former humid savanna rangeland? How does tree …

Questions We studied a humid savanna rangeland, abandoned in 2000, where intensive
cattle grazing had led to widespread encroachment by Acacia zanzibarica. We asked …

We studied how grazing intensity by small and mid‐sized ungulate grazers varied with
nutritional quality and grass species composition in wet oligotrophic tallgrass savanna of …