1. Treeless grasslands with climates that can support tree growth are common in upland regions around the world. In South Africa, the upland grasslands are adjacent to lowland savannas in many areas, ...

Savannas and grasslands cover a vast area, some 20 percent of the earth’s land surface — from sub-Saharan Africa, to the Cerrado in Brazil, to North America’s heartland. They also offer an enormous ...

Savannas and grasslands in drier climates around the world store more heat-trapping carbon than scientists thought they did and are helping to slow the rate of climate warming, according to a new ...

Scientists using chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover--in effect, shade--have found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where human ...

Ancient animal herders added to the ecological richness and diversity of the African savanna thousands of years ago -- an effect that persists to the present day, a new study finds. The herders' ...

Often viewed as wild, naturally pristine and endangered by human encroachment, some of the African savanna's most fertile and biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of dung ...

Loss of large mammals, such as zebras, has cryptic consequences for African savannas. In African savannas, when the large animals are away, the mice — and snakes, fleas and ticks — will play. A new ...

Susanne Vetter receives funding from The National Research Foundation, ACCESS and Rhodes University. Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa, Asia and South America are covered by ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature now lists the African forest elephant as critically endangered and the African savanna elephant as endangered. Both species have experienced sharp ...