Large herbivores may alter vegetation st
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Cornelis van der Waal; Ada Kool; Seline S. Meijer; Edward Kohi; Ignas M. A. Heit
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Article
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2011
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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In savannas, the tree–grass balance is governed by water, nutrients, fire and herbivory, and their interactions. We studied the hypothesis that herbivores indirectly affect vegetation structure by changing the availability of soil nutrients, which, in turn, alters the competition between trees and g