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   Fire effects on vegetation in a grassy dwarf shrubland at a site in the eastern Karoo, South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Justin CO du Toit --- Grootfontein Agricultural Development Institute, South Africa Loraine van den Berg --- Grootfontein Agricultural Development Institute, South Africa Tim G O'Connor --- South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South Africa

   Fire is rare in semi-arid eastern Karoo dwarf shrublands, South Africa, and responses to fire are largely unknown. Recent increased grassiness, and hence fuel loads, at Grootfontein in the Eastern Cape allowed an accidental fire (24.3 ha) to carry, and...

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   Vegetation dynamics after experimental fire disturbance in the arid Succulent Karoo, South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Helga van der Merwe --- South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON): Arid Lands Node, South Africa Sebataolo Rahlao --- Invasives Monitoring and Reporting, South Africa Liesel Hein --- South African Environmental Observation Network, South Africa Suzanne J Milton --- South African Environmental Observation Network, South Africa

   Disturbance by fire in the Succulent Karoo is rare but fire events could increase as a result of an increase in grassiness (alien and indigenous species). This study assessed the effects of fire eight years after an experimentally induced burn...

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