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Low- and high-intensity fire in the riparian savanna: demographic impacts in an avian model species and implications for ecological fire management.

Published online: 06 Mar 2024

Authors: Teunissen, N. & McAlpine, H. & Cameron, S. F. & Murphy, B. P. & Peters, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate change is driving changes in fire frequency and intensity, making it more urgent for conservation managers to understand how species and ecosy...

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Response of African savanna ants to long-term fire regimes.

Published online: 15 Sep 2004

Authors: Parr, C. L. & Robertson, H. G. & Biggs, H. C. & Chown, S. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite the fact that fire is considered an important disturbance in savannas across the world and is used widely as a management tool in conservation...

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A procedure for multidisciplinary ecosystem research: with reference to the South African Savanna Ecosystem Project.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Walker, B. H. & Norton, G. A. & Conway, G. R. & Comins, H. N. & Birley, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A procedure is required for ecosystem studies which is ordered but flexible and directs workers quickly and inexpensively towards answers to key ecolo...

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Nutrients in soil and vegetation around two artificial waterpoints in Eastern Botswana.

Published online: 25 Oct 1988

Authors: Tolsma, D. J. & Ernst, W. H. O. & Verwey, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A comparison of the vegetation and soil was made around 2 boreholes, differing in cattle density and exploitation period, in the dry savanna of E. Bot...

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Woody plant encroachment and the ecology of vector-borne diseases.

Published online: 12 Feb 2022

Authors: Loss, S. R. & Noden, B. H. & Fuhlendorf, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) impact human and animal health globally, and their ecology and transmission are affected by human-caused ecosystem and bi...

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Twenty years of tallgrass prairie restoration in northern Illinois, USA.

Published online: 03 Jan 2022

Authors: Bach, E. M. & Kleiman, B. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Ecosystem restoration projects need to measure progress toward project goals and deliver desired outcomes. This study examines longitudinal plant comm...

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FIRETOOL: an expert system for the use of prescribed fires in Brazilian savannas.

Published online: 10 Aug 1996

Authors: Pivello, V. R. & Norton, G. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A prototype expert system, FIRETOOL, was developed to help decision makers and managers use prescribed burns for the ecological management of Brazilia...

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Herbaceous biomass in a Eucalyptus savanna woodland after removing trees and/or shrubs.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Harrington, G. N. & Johns, G. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Herbaceous biomass was monitored for 9 years in an intact, semiarid savanna woodland near Bourke, New South Wales, with a 15% canopy cover of E. popul...

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Microbial C, N and P in dry tropical savanna: effects of burning and grazing.

Published online: 25 Apr 1992

Authors: Singh, R. S. & Srivastava, S. C. & Raghubanshi, A. S. & Singh, J. S. & Singh, S. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of burning and grazing of dry tropical Indian savanna on the level of available nutrient pools and microbial C, N and P were assessed. The...

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Fire management in the Brazilian Savanna: first steps and the way forward.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Schmidt, I. B. & Moura, L. C. & Ferreira, M. C. & Eloy, L. & Sampaio, A. B. & Dias, P. A. & Berlinck, C. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Several decades of frustrated attempts to prevent fires in the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado) have led to deleterious ecological and management consequen...

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