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SUBMITTER: Solofondranohatra CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287345 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Solofondranohatra Cédrique L CL Vorontsova Maria S MS Hempson Gareth P GP Hackel Jan J Cable Stuart S Vololoniaina Jeannoda J Lehmann Caroline E R CER
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200513 1927
The ecology of Madagascar's grasslands is under-investigated and the dearth of ecological understanding of how disturbance by fire and grazing shapes these grasslands stems from a perception that disturbance shaped Malagasy grasslands only after human arrival. However, worldwide, fire and grazing shape tropical grasslands over ecological and evolutionary timescales, and it is curious Madagascar should be a global anomaly. We examined the functional and community ecology of Madagascar's grassland ...[more]