Effects of Erosion from Mounds of Different Termite Genera on Distinct Functional Grassland Types in an African Savannah

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-139

  Gosling, Cleo M ^a,d   Cromsigt, Joris P G M ^b   Mpanza, Nokukhanya ^c   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^d Leopard Ecology and Conservation   (Botswana)

Author keywords

bunch grass; ecosystem engineers; heterogeneity; Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park; lawn grass; Macrotermitinae; mound erosion; Nasutitermitinae; savannah; termites

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SAVANNA; SOIL EROSION; TERMITE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

HLUHLUWE-UMFOLOZI PARK; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

DIGITARIA LONGIFLORA; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES; MACROTERMITINAE; NASUTITERMITINAE; ODONTOTERMES; SPOROBOLUS PYRAMIDALIS; TRINERVITERMES;

EID: 84856552373     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9497-8     Document Type: Article

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