Browsing Okavango Research Institute (ORI) by Subject "Disturbance"
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Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands.
(Ecological Society of America; https://www.esa.org/esa/, 2014-04-01)Herbivory and fire shape plant community structure in grass‐dominated ecosystems, but these disturbance regimes are being altered around the world. To assess the consequences of such alterations, we excluded large herbivores ... -
Trait-environment relations for dominant grasses in South African mesic grassland support a general leaf economic model
(Wiley Online Library, 2011-03-04)Question: Following the framework of Suding et al.(2003), we examined whether morphological traits (organismal response), tolerance and competitive effect (specific process response) were associated with grass dominance ...