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- Title
Fire-free environments across southern Africa's biomes: distribution and refugial value.
- Authors
PROCHEŞ, Şerban
- Abstract
It is widely known that southern African forests harbour a variety of organisms absent in several other southern African biomes due to their inability to survive fire. Likewise, biomes where succulent plants are dominant can also provide shelter for some fire-sensitive lineages. There is however little information as to how some other groups that are not adapted to survive veld fires survive in fire-prone biomes, although rocky outcrops and other types of fire-free refugia have been invoked. There is a need for a systematic approach towards understanding the distribution of fire-free refugia in fynbos, grassland, and savanna, and the spatial scales relevant to fire-survival in various groups of organisms, depending on their dispersal abilities and strategies, as well as on seasonal patterns in their life cycle/phenology.
- Subjects
BIOMES; FIRES &; the environment; BIODIVERSITY
- Publication
North-Western Journal of Zoology, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 2, p361
- ISSN
1584-9074
- Publication type
Article