Browsing and fire interact to suppress tree density in an African savanna

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1909-1919

  Carla Staver, A ^a,b   Bond, William J ^a   Stock, William D ^a,c   Van Rensburg, Sue J ^a,d   Waldram, Matthew S ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Singita Grumeti Fund Mawalla Park ^*  (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Browsing; Demographic bottleneck; Fire; Herbivore; Hluhluwe imfolozi park; Kwazulu natal; Large mammal grazers; Mixed feeder; Savanna; South africa; Tree cover; Tree grass coexistence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HERBIVORY; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; SAVANNA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRE; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; TREE;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRES; PERISSODACTYLA; SOUTH AFRICA; TREES;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 70349312465     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1907.1     Document Type: Article

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