The effects of fire and grazing pressure on vegetation cover and small mammal populations in the Maasai Mara national reserve

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 200-204

  Salvatori, V ^a,b   Egunyu, F ^a   Skidmore, A K ^a   De Leeuw, J ^a   Van Gils, H A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fire; Grazing; Maasai Mara; Rodents; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GRAZING PRESSURE; MAMMAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

KENYA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034991269     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2028.2001.00295.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Biomass dynamics of grassland vegetation in Kenya
2. Effects of prescribed burning on the flora and fauna of Southwest Australian forest
3. The effects of fire on a population of small rodents
4. The ecology of small rodents in tropical Africa
5. Vegetation dynamics in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem: The role of elephants, fire and other factors
6. Occupation et utilisation de l'espace par des populations du genre Mastomys au Senegal: Étude a trois niveaux de perception
7. Social structure in synanthropic populations of a murid rodent Mastomys natalensis in Senegal
8. Impacts of ungulates on the demography and diversity of small mammals in central Kenya
9. Life history variation and the consequences for population dynamics in Mastomys natalensis rats in Tanzania
10. The distribution and activity of a rodent population in western Uganda, with particular reference to the effects of burning
11. Reproductive biology of the unstriped grass rat, Arvicanthis, in East Africa
12. The influence of grazing, browsing, and fire on the vegetation dynamics of the Serengeti
13. Animals, fire, and vertebrate herbivory in Californian chaparral and other Mediterranean-type ecosystems
14. The Serengeti environment
15. Herbivore dynamics in Southern Narok, Kenya
16. Effect of a slash burn on forest mice