African Journal of Range and Forage Science
Journal / African Journal of Range and Forage Science / Vol. 39 No. 1 (2022) / Articles

Lessons from a century of evidence-based fire management in grassy ecosystems

A historical perspective on fire research in East and Southern African grasslands and savannas

1–15

Fire and herbivory shape belowground bud banks in a semi-arid African savanna

16–26

Sedimentary charcoal studies from southern Africa’s grassy biomes: A potential resource for informing the management of fires and ecosystems

27–43

Long-term frequent fires do not decrease topsoil carbon and nitrogen in an Afromontane grassland

44–55

Tipping the scales: How fire controls the balance among functional groups in Angolan grasslands

56–69

Historic changes in the fire-rainfall relationship at a woodland-savanna transition zone in southern Africa

70–81

Could CO₂-induced changes to C₄ grass flammability aggravate savanna woody encroachment?

82–95

Woody cover change in relation to fire history and land-use in the savanna-woodlands of north-east Namibia (1996–2019)

96–106

The effect of changes in human drivers on the fire regimes of South African grassland and savanna environments over the past 100 years

107–123

Intentions behind common and risky fires in south-eastern Tanzania

124–135

Fire as friend or foe: The role of scientists in balancing media coverage of fires in National Parks

136–147

High-intensity fire experiments to manage shrub encroachment: lessons learned in South Africa and the United States

148–159

Too much, too late: Fires and reactive wildfire management in northern Botswana’s forests and woodland savannas

160–174

A laissez-faire management approach in a grassland landscape results in a fine-scale, spatio-temporally heterogeneous fire pattern

175–188

Ecology of fire-dependent ecosystems: Wildland fire science, policy and management

189–190

A tribute to Winston Smuts Watts Trollope – A firebrand and visionary in fire research