1. Savanna ecosystems – defined by the coexistence of trees and grasses – cover more than one-fifth the world's land surface and harbour most of the world's rangelands, livestock and large mammal ...

Question: In seasonal rainfall systems, seed dormancy is a strategy to avoid germination and seedling emergence in the dry season. Grass species in Brazilian savannas (Cerrado) show variation in seed ...

Lately, I have been spending more time in the field, and I continue to be captivated by observing plants in their natural habitats. As a teenager, I was already fascinated by plants and animals, but ...

What do large herbivores like elephants and zebras eat? And if – as researchers assumed — they eat many of the same things, then how do they share the spread of grasses and other plants across the ...

Ancient Marathi literature reveals that Maharashtra's savannas, dating back 750 years, should not be classified as degraded ...

Swift foxes are among the many species that rely on healthy grassland ecosystems. Image: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute From the savannas of Sub-Saharan ...

Biopact informs us that Namibia has an innovative plan to deal with the “plague” of “invader bush” encroaching on the country’s southwest African savanna pasturelands. Government officials hope to ...

There are a few annoyances created when spring and summer rainfall is measured in feet rather than inches — and, as mentioned in this space on Wednesday, the rain in May and June around here ...

What do large herbivores like elephants and zebras eat? And if – as researchers assumed — they eat many of the same things, then how do they share the spread of grasses and other plants across the ...

The team ultimately collected 292 dung samples from dik-diks (a type of antelope)and six other species. What do large herbivores like elephants and zebras eat? And if – as researchers assumed — they ...