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Termite species and functional diversity as determined by vegetation and edaphic characteristics in a savanna ecosystem

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology
Background Savanna ecosystems support a diversity of biota and are influenced by vegetation and edaphic characteristics, shaping resident communities.
Zodwa Madonsela, Cebisile N. Magagula
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Ten years of pulling: Ecosystem recovery after long‐term weed management in Garry oak savanna

Conservation Science and Practice, 2019
Ecosystem restoration is the practice of assisting recovery in degraded ecological communities. The aims of restoration are typically broad, involving the reinstatement of composition, structure, function, and resilience to disturbances.
Nancy Shackelford, Sean M. Murray, Joseph R. Bennett, Patrick L. Lilley, Brian M. Starzomski, Rachel J. Standish   +5 more
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Restoring a Disappearing Ecosystem: the Longleaf Pine Savanna [PDF]

, 2013
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) savannas of the southeastern United States contain some of the worlds most diverse plant communities, along with a unique complement of wildlife. Their traditionally open canopy structure and rich understory of grasses and herbs were critical to their vigor.
Harrington, Timothy B., Miller, Karl V., Park, Noreen   +2 more
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Brazil seed transfer zones: Supporting seed sourcing for climate‐resilient ecosystem restoration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil has tens of millions of hectares of degraded land that must be restored to meet national and global biodiversity and climate goals. Sowing genetically diverse native seeds is key to restoring degraded lands to climate‐resilient landscapes, but we still lack guidance on how to effectively match seed sources to restoration sites across broad ...
Mateus Silva, André Braga Junqueira, Pedro Guimarães, Danielle Celentano, Beatriz Murer, Tobias Fremout, Evert Thomas, Christopher Kettle, Edjane Damasceno, Adler Medeiros, Rodrigo Dutra‐Silva, Fabian Borghetti, Fatima Piña‐Rodrigues, Anabele Gomes, Veronica Maioli, R. Toby Pennington, Lucy Rowland, Eduardo Malta   +17 more
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria, Luciane Vilela Resende, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +2 more
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Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland

Environmental Research Letters
Tree-grass coexistence is a defining feature of savanna ecosystems, which play an important role in supporting biodiversity and human populations worldwide.
Jelle van der Voort, Mara Baudena, Ehud Meron, Max Rietkerk, Arjen Doelman   +4 more
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Peri‐urban agroforestry for climate mitigation in West Africa: Structural diversity and functional traits as key drivers of carbon storage

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Peri‐urban areas in West Africa are expanding rapidly, often with limited planning and growing exposure to climate risks. Our study shows that agroforestry systems in these landscapes, especially diverse home gardens, can store substantial amounts of carbon when they include structurally complex stands and species with traits that favor biomass ...
Sèdoami Flora Dogbo, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Sylvanus Mensah, Gafarou Agoundé, Kangbéni Dimobe, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo, Jens Gebauer, Constant Yves Adou Yao, Romain Glèlè Kakaï   +8 more
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Ecosystem Processes and Dynamics in Mesic Savannas

, 2023
AbstractAn introduction is presented to systems ecology, through models of the pathways, pools and fluxes of materials in terrestrial ecosystems, and the role of feedback mechanisms, and of the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Food chains, food webs and trophic levels provide structure to ecosystem processes.
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Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna

PLoS Biology, 2010
إن اكتشاف أن الأنماط المكانية المنتظمة يمكن أن تظهر في الطبيعة من التفاعلات المحلية بين الكائنات الحية قد دفع إلى البحث عن الأهمية البيئية لهذه الأنماط. توقعت النماذج النظرية أن يكون للنمط آثار إيجابية ناشئة على وظائف النظام الإيكولوجي الأساسية، مثل الإنتاجية. نحن نقدم الدعم التجريبي لهذا التنبؤ. في النظم الإيكولوجية للأراضي الجافة، غالبًا ما تكون تلال
Robert M. Pringle, Daniel F. Doak, Alison K. Brody, Rudy Jocqué, Todd M. Palmer   +4 more
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Improved Cerrado Wetland Mapping Through Seasonal Moisture Metrics, Terrain Information and Semantic Segmentation

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Brazil's Cerrado valley wetlands—swamp savanna and gallery forest—are highly important for the biome's water cycle and carbon storage and are susceptible to degradation from the impacts of land use expansion and the climate crisis. In support of their detailed monitoring and assessment, we developed and tested a transferable mapping approach that ...
Felix Beer, Hugo do Nascimento Bendini, Mateus de Souza Miranda, Vu‐Dong Pham, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz, Sebastian van der Linden   +6 more
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