Edmund C February's research while affiliated with University of Cape Town and other places

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Increasing rainfall variability is widely expected under future climate change scenarios. How will savanna trees and grasses be affected by growing season dry spells and altered seasonality and how tightly coupled are tree–grass phenologies with rainfall? We measured tree and grass responses to growing season dry spells and dry season rainfall. We...
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The coexistence of leguminous trees and C4 grasses in African savanna remains poorly understood. Trees are able to establish among grasses despite grasses being competitively superior for below ground resources. Here we test the hypothesis that trees are only able to establish when grass biomass has been reduced. We do this at four locations in Lim...
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The coexistence of leguminous trees and C4 grasses in African savanna remains poorly understood. Trees are able to establish among grasses despite grasses being competitively superior for below ground resources. Here we test the hypothesis that trees are only able to establish when grass biomass has been reduced. We do this at four locations in Lim...