Nov. 1—SAVANNA, Ill. — The annual Festival of Trees at Savanna Museum and Cultural Center opens Friday, Nov. 26, from 4-7 p.m. Businesses, organizations, schools, churches and individuals can ...

"We used a mathematical model to show that positive feedback loops between fire frequency and savanna trees, alone or together with grasses, can stabilize ecological communities in a savanna state ...

(KWQC) -The Savanna Museum and Cultural Center, 406 Main Street, Savanna, is hosting its annual community Festival of Trees event from Nov. 24 to Dec. 10. Artists, individual residents, families ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna—account for nearly half of all its trees. This phenomenon of ...

"We wanted to find out what controls savanna vegetation – essentially the density of trees within the savanna – and whether we can use a single global model to predict what will happen to ...

A David and Goliath story is playing out on the African savanna, where tree-loving ants are fending off herds of tree-hungry elephants, proving that - in nature - size and strength don't always ...

Scientists supposed that the ecosystem's high annual precipitation would result in greater tree growth. Yet a 2011 study found that the more instances of heavy rainfall a savanna received ...

Savanna grasses also carry regular fires that maintain the open, well-lit environment. Otherwise it becomes dominated by shrubs and trees, a phenomenon that we refer to as woody encroachment.