Trees improve grass quality for herbivores in African savannas

By A. Treydte, Ignas M. A. Heitkönig, Herbert H. T. Prins, F. Ludwig. 2007

155 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/be6bc0735c21cfa569203e5db3d3715672ae07a9

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In Forestry

1. David J. Augustine
2. C. Riginos

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Young
2. David J. Augustine
3. F. Dembélé
4. Kosiwa A. Amévor
5. C. Riginos
6. Andrew K. Skidmore
7. Ignas M. A. Heitkönig
8. Aristides Moustakas

Citations in the corpus

• Water-removed spectra increase the retrieval accuracy when estimating savanna grass nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations (2011, background): “Large herbivores are known to concentrate in nutrient rich sites in Southern Africa, e.g. termite mounds, sodic sites, sites beneath large trees (Owen-Smith and Danckwerts 1997; Grant and Scholes 2006; Treydte et al. 2007).”
• Local versus landscape‐scale effects of savanna trees on grasses (2009, background): “This has led to the conclusion that reductions in landscape-scale tree abundances (e.g. due to high elephant densities) will have negative effects on ungulate nutrition and population dynamics (Treydte et al. 2007; Ludwig, deKroon&Prins 2008).”
• Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress‐gradient hypothesis (2013, background): “Elevated nutrient availability can improve forage quality of subcanopy grasses, thus attracting grazers (Treydte et al. 2007, 2008; Ludwig, Kroon & Prins 2008).”