Herbivory is a key process structuring vegetation in savannas, especially in Africa where
large mammal herbivore communities remain intact. Exclusion experiments consistently …

Despite growing recognition of the conservation value of grassy biomes, our understanding
of how to restore biodiverse tropical and subtropical grassy biomes (grasslands and …

Species occurrence is influenced by environmental conditions and the presence of other
species. Current approaches for multispecies occupancy modelling are practically limited to …

Understanding how predation risk and plant defenses interactively shape plant distributions
is a core challenge in ecology. By combining global positioning system telemetry of an …

Whether or not climate change has had an impact on the occurrence of tornadoes in the
United States has become a question of high public and scientific interest, but changes in …

Herbivores frequently have to make trade‐offs between two basic needs: the need to
acquire forage and the need to avoid predation. One manifestation of this trade‐off is the …

Wild herbivore populations are declining in many African savannas, which is related to
replacement by livestock (mainly cattle) and the loss of megaherbivores. Although some …

Extensive livestock grazing is a global land use activity that has numerous social, cultural,
and environmental benefits. Many marginal zones grazed for centuries are now suffering …

African savannas support an iconic fauna, but they are undergoing large‐scale population
declines and extinctions of large (> 5 kg) mammals. Long‐term, controlled, replicated …

Mammals are imperiled worldwide. Threats to terrestrial species are primarily from habitat
loss or modification, and in some instances from commercial, illegal, or unregulated hunting …