In the burned miombo of northern Zambia, succession was followed on plots cleared and burned during the practice of shifting cultivation. Twelve formerly cultivated gardens were surveyed in various ...

Zhenjian Bai, Ying Gao, Fu Xing, Shengnan Sun, Deyu Jiao, Xiuhong Wei, Chunsheng Mu, Responses of two contrasting saline-alkaline grassland communities to nitrogen addition during early secondary ...

Pioneer tree species are also known for their ability to readily seed or root sprout on bare soil and withstand the rigors of low moisture availability, full sunlight and high temperatures along ...

Ecological succession is the progressive change, in an ecosystem, of species composition over time. With the change in species composition comes a series of modifications in community structure ...

In tropical moist forests, nitrogen-fixing tree species can supply a large proportion of the nitrogen required for net forest growth in the first 12 years of recovery after human or natural ...