This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Herbivory is a prominent top-down force shaping the landscape of semiarid savannas in East Africa. Herbivores participate in seed ...

At the moment, my field work is focused on plant population ecology, especially the demography of arctic and alpine plants and how they respond to climate change, and on the ways that termites ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna buffalo ... with humans because of their size and aggression. In East Africa, buffalo are known to break fences and tear through crops.

Savannas cover almost half the surface of Africa and large areas of Australia, South America and India. So what makes a savanna special? One important factor is they have a wet season, lasting for ...