Madagascar's grasslands: Anthropogenic or ancient?
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Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?
Grasses, by their high productivity even under very low pCO2, their ability to survive repeated burning and to tolerate long dry seasons, have transformed the terrestrial biomes in the Neogene and Quaternary. The expansion of grasslands at the cost of biodiverse forest biomes in Madagascar is often postulated as a consequence of the Holocene settlement of the island by humans. However, we show ...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Journal of Botany
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0254-6299
DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2007.02.023