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Savannas can functionally turn into forests in the Amazonia/Cerrado transition

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2021
Adjacent forest formations are ecotones that can reveal changes in the vertical structure of tropical biomes e.g., Cerrado (brazilian Savanna). Litterfall is a metric that shows some of these alterations.
Marco Bruno Xavier Valadão, Karla Monique Silva Carneiro, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Fabiana Piontekowski Ribeiro, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon   +4 more
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Cultivar and insecticide spraying time effects on cowpea insect pests and grain yield in northern Ghana

Annals of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
Insecticide application is the recommended practice for control of insect pests on cowpea (Vigna unquiculata (L) Walp). However, these have negative effects on humans and the environment, apart from being costly for resource-poor farmers.
F. Kusi, J.A. Nboyine, M. Abudulai, A. Seidu, Y.R. Agyare, I. Sugri, M. Zakaria, R.K. Owusu, S.K. Nutsugah, L. Asamoah   +9 more
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Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus availability on the early growth of two congeneric pairs of savanna and forest species

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021
In the tropical region, savannas and seasonal forests, both highly diverse biomes, occur side by side, under the same climate. If so, that mosaic cannot be explained solely by climatic variables, but also by fire, water availability and soil status ...
B. Paganeli, M. A. Batalha
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Quantifying the relative importance of greenhouse gas emissions from current and future savanna land use change across northern Australia [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2016
The clearing and burning of tropical savanna leads to globally significant emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs); however there is large uncertainty relating to the magnitude of this flux.
M. Bristow, M. Bristow, L. B. Hutley, J. Beringer, S. J. Livesley, A. C. Edwards, S. K. Arndt   +6 more
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Reframing tropical savannization: linking changes in canopy structure to energy balance alterations that impact climate

Ecosphere, 2020
Tropical ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented rates of degradation from deforestation, fire, and drought disturbances. The collective effects of these disturbances threaten to shift large portions of tropical ecosystems such as Amazon forests into ...
Scott C. Stark, David D. Breshears, Susan Aragón, Juan Camilo Villegas, Darin J. Law, Marielle N. Smith, David M. Minor, Rafael Leandro deAssis, Danilo Roberti Alves deAlmeida, Gabriel deOliveira, Scott R. Saleska, Abigail L. S. Swann, José Mauro S. Moura, José Luis Camargo, Rodrigo daSilva, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, R. Cosme Oliveira   +16 more
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Contrasting photosynthetic characteristics of forest vs. savanna species (Far North Queensland, Australia) [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2014
Forest and savanna are the two dominant vegetation types of the tropical regions with very few tree species common to both. At a broad scale, it has long been recognised that the distributions of these two biomes are principally governed by precipitation
K. J. Bloomfield, T. F. Domingues, G. Saiz, M. I. Bird, D. M. Crayn, A. Ford, D. J. Metcalfe, G. D. Farquhar, J. Lloyd   +8 more
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Assessing the Australian Termite Diversity Anomaly: How Habitat and Rainfall Affect Termite Assemblages

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Termites are important ecosystem engineers in tropical habitats, with different feeding groups able to decompose wood, grass, litter, and soil organic matter.
Rebecca A. Clement, Rebecca A. Clement, Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Lucas A. Cernusak, Alexander W. Cheesman, Alexander W. Cheesman, Abbey R. Yatsko, Steven D. Allison, Steven D. Allison, Paul Eggleton, Amy E. Zanne   +10 more
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Soil Amendments and Rotation Effects on Soybean and Maize Growths and Soil Chemical Changes in Northern Ghana

International Journal of Agronomy, 2017
A four-year field trial was conducted at Bonia in the Upper East Region of Ghana to evaluate soybean-maize rotation amendment systems. The treatments included soybean without amendment, inoculated soybean, inoculated soybean with fertisol, inoculated ...
R. A. L. Kanton, S. S. J. Buah, A. Larbi, A. M. Mohammed, J. K. Bidzakin, E. A. Yakubu   +5 more
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Annual habit and apomixis as drought adaptations in Selaginella tenerrima

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 1983
Selaginella tenerrima A. Braun ex Kuhn, widely distributed in the savanna-woodland and savanna zones of tropical Africa, is strictly annual. Dormant megaspores survive the yearly drought.
J. Kornaś, A. Jankun
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Quantifying Fire-Induced Surface Climate Changes in the Savanna and Rainforest Biomes of Brazil

Fire, 2023
This study uses a combined research approach based on remote-sensing and numerical modeling to quantify the effects of burned areas on the surface climate in the two Brazilian biomes most affected by fires: the tropical savanna and the Amazon rainforest.
Fernando De Sales, Zackary Werner, João Gilberto de Souza Ribeiro   +2 more
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