Vegetation’s increased vulnerability to extrinsic disturbances is an important but less studied effect of natural habitat fragmentation. Fire is part of the evolutionary history of grassland ecosystems, but fragmentation by forest plantations can alter
The ultimate reasons for treelessness in the natural grassland of the Highveld of southern Africa have long eluded biologists. This is partly because of the ambivalence of adaptive determinism versus biogeographical/phylogenetic accidents, and partly because of entanglement between cause and effect. For...
Check access to the full text by signing in through your organization. Access through your organization Section snippets Study area The Argentine Pampas occupies a large area (∼ 600,000 km2) ranging between latitude 30–39° S and longitude 57–66° W. It is dominated by a grassland pl...
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