News tagged with african savanna

Savannas, forests in a battle of the biomes, researchers find

Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by Princeton University researchers to stabilize the two. Without this ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bull elephants' social behavior varies with the rainfall

(PhysOrg.com) -- The lone bull elephant is an image as iconic to the African savanna as the lonesome cowboy on horseback is to the American West. Although female elephants form tightly knit groups guided ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Termites foretell climate change in Africa's savannas

Using sophisticated airborne imaging and structural analysis, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology mapped more than 40,000 termite mounds over 192 square miles in the African ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Airborne ecologists help balance delicate African ecosystem

The African savanna is world famous for its wildlife, especially the iconic large herbivores such as elephants, zebras, and giraffes. But managing these ecosystems and balancing the interests of the large ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0