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Small-scale patch structure in North American and South African grasslands responds differently to fire and grazing.

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Koerner, Sally E., Collins, Scott L.·2013·Landscape Ecology
DOI 10.1007/s10980-013-9866-0
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  • Bison grazing promotes plant functional-group and species richness and alters patch structure across tallgrass prairie landscapes.

    “bison grazing promotes plant functional-group and species richness, alters patch structure across tallgrass prairie landscapes (Knapp et al., 1999;Koerner and Collins, 2013;Eby et al., 2014)”

    From The Potential of Bison Restoration as an Ecological Approach to Future Tribal Food Sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains (2022) · cites this paper as Koerner and Collins, 2013

    The North America results report that grazing at Konza significantly increased species richness and changed the strength and size of small-scale grass patches. The Study site identifies bison as the grazer in the Konza treatments. The paper reports grass and forb species richness, but does not establish that grazing increased the number of plant functional groups; that part of the claim is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Koerner, S. E., & Collins, S. L.
Affiliations
University of New Mexico (US)
Corresponding author
Koerner, Sally E.
ORCID
Venue
Landscape Ecology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2013-03-16
Volume
28
Issue
7
Pages
1293-1306
ISSN
  • 0921-2973 (ISSN-L)
  • 1572-9761
DOI
10.1007/s10980-013-9866-0
OpenAlex
W2035638469
Cited by
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FWCI
5.59
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journal article
Language
en
Open access
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www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Landscape Ecology (publishedVersion)
  • NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (0909912)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
Keywords
savanna grassland, fire frequency, grazing intensity, forb cover, community heterogeneity, species richness, fire-grazing interactions, North American grasslands, South African grasslands

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