Changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa's savanna-protected areas: opportunities and challenges for indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement …

AR Croker, J Woods, Y Kountouris - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Late dry-season wildfires in sub-Saharan Africa's savanna-protected areas are
intensifying, increasing carbon emissions, and threatening ecosystem functioning …

Tropical savanna small mammals respond to loss of cover following disturbance: A global review of field studies

BJ Bergstrom, SB Scruggs, EM Vieira - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Small-mammal faunas of tropical savannas consist of endemic assemblages of murid
rodents, small marsupials, and insectivores on four continents. Small mammals in tropical …

Pyric herbivory in a temperate European wood‐pasture system

K Amsten, JPGM Cromsigt, DPJ Kuijper… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The term pyric herbivory was first introduced in 2009, describing how fire shapes herbivory
as burned areas attract herbivores and, simultaneously, herbivory shapes fuel load and fire …

Fire and herbivory interactively suppress the survival and growth of trees in an african semiarid savanna

MW Ngugi, DM Kimuyu, RL Sensenig, WO Odadi… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
There has been a long-standing interest in understanding how interactions between fire and
herbivory influence woody vegetation dynamics in savanna ecosystems. However …

Drivers of small-mammal community structure in tropical savannas

BJ Bergstrom, CR Dickman, A Monadjem… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Tropical and subtropical savanna ecosystems (TSE; Figure 1) contribute~ 30%
of terrestrial primary productivity globally (Grace et al., 2006), while covering 20% of the land …