Spring cleanup is underway at the Middlefork Savanna in Lake Forest, where prescribed burns have returned. Saturday’s burn included smoke on the horizon over the nearly 700 acres. Nearby wetl… ...

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable ...

Cerling added that even our tree-dwelling ancestor Ardipithecus apparently had a small component of warm-season grasses or related plants in its diet. "It was going into the savanna, unless it was ...

Zion resident Doug Ower said all of the savanna should remain forest preserve property, and the district should follow its 10-year-old master plan to restore wetlands there, rather than destroy them.

Differential tree seedling recruitment across forest-savanna ecotones is poorly understood, but hypothesized to be influenced by vegetation cover and associated factors. In a 3-y-long field transplant ...

Leading scientists project that if an additional 3-8% of rainforest cover is lost in the Amazon, it may overshoot a forest-to-degraded-savanna tipping point.

The Nilgala savanna forest spans just over 12,400 hectares (30,700 acres) in the lower plains of Sri Lanka’s southern Uva province.

image: Transition between savanna and forest in central portion of Cerrado, Cavalcante municipality, Goiás state. Fire is present in savanna areas and absent in forest areas view more ...

The warm-season grasses that dominate savannas engage in a kind of photosynthesis that involves both carbon-12 and carbon-13. On the other hand, trees and shrubs rely on a kind of photosynthesis ...