Data from: Ecological legacies of civil war: 35-year increase in savanna tree cover following wholesale large-mammal declines

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extinction;Hexagon satellite;bush encroachment;top-down effects;Loxodonta africana;elephants;plant\u2013herbivore interactions;biodiversity loss;Remote sensing;trophic cascade;tree-grass coexistence

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doi:10.5061/dryad.2jj16

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1. Large mammalian herbivores (LMH) exert strong effects on plants in tropical savannas, and many wild LMH populations are declining. Howeve

Data from: Litter type and termites regulate root decomposition across contrasting savanna land-uses

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Smith, Stuart

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leguminous trees plant-soil interactions root traits root decomposition termite ecology plant functional traits

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doi:10.5061/dryad.p6s0407

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of root decomposition across contrasting tropical savanna land-uses, namely wildlife and fire-dominated protected areas and livestock pastureland without fire

Data from: Biotically driven vegetation mosaics in grazing ecosystems: the battle between bioturbation and biocompaction

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grazing ecosystems;bistable states;water infiltration;soil amelioration;patch conversion;compaction;Bioturbation;abiotic stress;ecosystem engineering;nutrient availability

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doi:10.5061/dryad.3f2j7

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Grazing ecosystems ranging from the arctic tundra to tropical savannas are often characterized by small-scale mosaics of herbivore-preferred

Data from: Abiotic and biotic predictors of macroecological patterns in bird and butterfly coloration

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Dalrymple, Rhiannon

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doi:10.5061/dryad.30h0n

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ia which inhabit an area spanning a latitudinal range of 35 degrees and covering deserts, tropical and temperate forests, savannas and heathlands, we test

Djamde Wildlife Reserve in Togo: diversity of woody species

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Koudjo AKPENE;;Kotchikpa Okoumassou;;Tchagou Awitazi;;Kotchikpa Okoumassou

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doi:10.15468/ugkanx

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and Parthasarathy, 2006). Tropical forests are disappearing at alarming rates worldwide, reducing annually by 1-4% of their current area (Laurance, 1999). Relative

Data from: Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco

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critical thresholds;continuous vegetation cover;Forest bird community

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doi:10.5061/dryad.3hg0054

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1. Worldwide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural expansion int