Fire is a prevalent feature of many landscapes and has numerous and complex effects on geological, hydrological, ecological, and economic systems. In some regions, the frequency …
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …
Vidon, Philippe, Craig Allan, Douglas Burns, Tim P. Duval, Noel Gurwick, Shreeram Inamdar, Richard Lowrance, Judy Okay, Durelle Scott, and Steve Sebestyen, 2010. Hot …
Droughts are a major hazard to both natural and human-dominated environments and those, especially of long duration and high intensity, can be highly damaging and leave long …
The transport of resource subsidies by animals has been documented across a range of species and ecosystems. Although many of these studies have shown that animal resource …
GP Asner, SR Levick… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
African savannas are undergoing management intensification, and decision makers are increasingly challenged to balance the needs of large herbivore populations with the …
Riparian ecosystems, already greatly altered by water management, land development, and biological invasion, are being further altered by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations …
In savannas, the tree–grass balance is governed by water, nutrients, fire and herbivory, and their interactions. We studied the hypothesis that herbivores indirectly affect vegetation …
Terrestrial inputs into freshwater ecosystems are a classical field of environmental science. Resource fluxes (subsidy) from aquatic to terrestrial systems have been less studied …