Browsing by Subject "Savanna"
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Fire activity on drylands and floodplains in the southern Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622855/description#description, 2006-05-08)Satellite imagery derived fire history data for the southern Okavango Delta, Botswana from 1989 to 2003 were used to analyse the temporal and spatial distribution of fires and to assess changes in fire activity. Maximum ... -
Importance of nitrogen fixation in soil crusts of southern African arid ecosystems: acetylene reduction and stable isotope studies
(Elsvier, www.elsevier.com, 2003)Cyanobacterial soil crusts may be important in arid and semi-arid ecosystems because of their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2). These crusts are very sensitive to trampling by animals, and their destruction can ... -
Interactions between fire and flooding in a southern African floodplain system (Okavango Delta, Botswana)
(Springer: http://www.springerlink.com, 2006)A series of 98 satellite images was analysed to reconstruct the fire and flood history of a floodplain system in southern Africa(Okavango Delta, Botswana). The data was used to investigate interactions between fire and ... -
Nutrient limitations on aboveground grass production in four savanna types along the Kalahari Transect
(Elsevier, 2010-02-19)The Kalahari Transect (KT) is an International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme mega-transect designed to examine hydrological and ecological patterns and processes throughout the savannas of southern Africa. The KT traverses ... -
Plant alkali content and radio wave communication efficiency in high intensity savanna wildfires
(Elsevier Science Ltd. www.elsevier.com/locate/jastp, 2007)The flames of wildfires are weakly ionized gas. The ionization is mainly due to omnipresent alkali and alkaline earth metal species that are emitted from thermally decomposing plant structure into the flame during a ... -
The relevance of fire frequency for the floodplain vegetation of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Wiley, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2007)The study investigates the relevance of fire frequency for the floodplain vegetation of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, considering species composition, species richness, vegetation structure and tree density. Based on ... -
Remotely sensed habitat indicators for predicting distribution of impala (Aepyceros melampus) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Cambridge University Press, www.cambridge.org, 2006)We studied the spatial and temporal habitat use of impala in Botswana’s Okavango Delta at landscape level with the aid of satellite imagery, with minimal fieldwork. We related remotely sensed vegetation to impala habitat ... -
Tree–grass competition along a catenal gradient in a mesic grassland, South Africa
(Wiley Online Library; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2014-03-03)The interaction, both above and belowground, between tree saplings and the surrounding grass sward is dependent on solar radiation, temperature, rainfall, soil depth, tree species and sward composition. These factors, ...