The savanna biome consists of areas of open grassland with very few trees. Biomes are defined by their unique vegetation and animal life, and the savanna is a type of grassland biome. There are ...

but fire needs to be actively maintained in savanna and grassland ecosystems and even reintroduced in the many areas that have seen decades of “inappropriate” fire exclusion, the researchers said.

Savanna fires keep tree cover low and prevent forests from encroaching on the grassland. When tree cover is high, as in a forest, fires cannot spread as easily, halting the savanna's advance into the ...

Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa, Asia and South America are covered by savanna and grassland. These open ecosystems are incorrectly mapped as degraded forest in the publicly ...

They found that within savanna-grassland regions, drier ecosystems were more vulnerable to changes in wildfire frequency than humid ecosystems. "The potential to lose soil carbon with very high ...

Regular burning and reintroducing browsing herbivores may also help control the threat that trees can pose to the savanna. These recommendations echo those of grassland scientists over the years.

However, last fall, word got out that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency planned to convert hardwood forest areas into Savanna grassland to act as a quail habitat. The Bridgestone Firestone ...