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The pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis: a test with savanna termite assemblages.

Published online: 18 Apr 2012

Authors: Davies, A. B. & Eggleton, P. & Rensburg, B. J. van & Parr, C. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Fire is an important disturbance in African savannas where it is generally assumed that high levels of pyrodiversity (variation in aspects of the fire...

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Incorporating disturbance into trophic ecology: fire history shapes mesopredator suppression by an apex predator.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Geary, W. L. & Ritchie, E. G. & Lawton, J. A. & Healey, T. R. & Nimmo, D. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Apex predators can suppress smaller bodied "mesopredators." In doing so, they can provide refuge to species preyed upon by mesopredators, which is par...

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Restoring landscape burning is compatible with conservation and livestock production in a southeast Australian grassland fragment.

Published online: 04 Jul 2024

Authors: French, B. J. & Prior, L. D. & Johnson, C. N. & Leonard, S. W. J. & Bowman, D. M. J. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Lowland grassland fragments in southeast Australia are valued for both sheep grazing and conservation. Many fragments are now rarely burnt, despite be...

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Long-term effects of seeding after wildfire on vegetation in Great Basin shrubland ecosystems.

Published online: 08 Oct 2014

Authors: Knutson, K. C. & Pyke, D. A. & Wirth, T. A. & Arkle, R. S. & Pilliod, D. S. & Brooks, M. L. & Chambers, J. C. & Grace, J. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive annual grasses alter fire regimes in shrubland ecosystems of the western USA, threatening ecosystem function and fragmenting habitats necessa...

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Brush-control studies in the drier areas of Kenya. 4. Effects of controlled burning on secondary thicket in upland Acacia Woodland.

Published online: 05 Mar 1968

Authors: Thomas, D. B. & Pratt, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Two burning regimes (burning each year during 1958-60 and burning in 1958 and 1960 only) were compared for the clearance of thicket in Acacia woodland...

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Management of ecological thresholds to re-establish disturbance-maintained herbaceous wetlands of the south-eastern USA.

Published online: 05 Aug 2009

Authors: Martin, K. L. & Kirkman, L. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The restoration of disturbance-maintained ecosystems may require management to overcome ecological thresholds and re-establish feedbacks that perpetua...

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Barriers to tree seedling emergence on human-induced grasslands in Sri Lanka.

Published online: 10 Mar 2010

Authors: Gunaratne, A. M. T. A. & Gunatilleke, C. V. S. & Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. & Weerasinghe, H. M. S. P. M. & Burslem, D. F. R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Colonization by woody plants is often very slow or absent on grasslands occupying degraded land in the tropics. Seed dispersal limitation is widely re...

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Structure and function in two tropical gallery forest communities: implications for forest conservation in fragmented systems.

Published online: 23 Sep 1998

Authors: Kellman, M. & Tackaberry, R. & Rigg, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Composition, growth and turnover of trees were examined in 2 species-rich tropical gallery forests in the Mountain Pine Ridge Savanna of Belize during...

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Elevation, canopy cover and grass cover structure patterns of seedling establishment in a subtropical post-fire restoration.

Published online: 24 Nov 2023

Authors: Warneke, C. & Brudvig, L. A. & Gregg, M. & McDaniel, S. & Yelenik, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Ecological restoration is beneficial to ecological communities in this era of large-scale landscape change and ecological disruption. However, restora...

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Application of the fire-grazing interaction to restore a shifting mosaic on tallgrass prairie.

Published online: 15 Sep 2004

Authors: Fuhlendorf, S. D. & Engle, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management of rangelands has long operated under the paradigm of minimizing spatially discrete disturbances, often under the objective of reducing inh...

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