Kevin Kirkman
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Agrostologist, focused on sustainable management of grasslands to provide clean water for sailing on.
Pietermaritzburg
Joined June 2012
RT @GrasslandSocSA: #GSSACongress60 Wondering what the venue looks like? ANEW Hilton Hotel, the venue for Congress 60 .
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Landscape of fear - less scary?.The primacy of density‐mediated indirect effects in a community of wolves, elk, and aspen - Brice - Ecological Monographs - Wiley Online Library
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The removal or addition of a predator in an ecosystem can trigger a trophic cascade, whereby the predator indirectly influences plants and/or abiotic processes via direct effects on its herbivore...
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Carbon and ecosystem service markets in rangelands and grazing systems are a wicked problem: multi-stakeholder partnership or roundtable as a vehicle forward?
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Can simple, on-ground vegetation and soil measures reliably indicate the health of rangelands? An application in Australia’s semi-arid woodlands? An application in Australia’s semi-arid woodlands
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Sustainably managing grazing lands is aided by monitoring and responding to simple and reliable indicators of how well the vegetation and soils of these landscapes are functioning to capture scarce...
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A systematic approach to soil carbon inventory on rangelands
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Significant and lasting soil carbon change in rangeland ecosystems requires ecological state change. Although within-ecological state, soil carbon dynamics can occur, they are driven primarily by...
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RT @AMacD_UGuelph: New paper on the variable responses of grassland productivity to global change, from field sites on six continents @NutN….
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RT @IntlSeedSciSoc: #ResearchHighlights: Fire stimulates seedling recruitment from the seed bank in the Cerrado 🫘 🔥 🌱 @mari_dairel @AleTFid….
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The reintroduction of fire increased the seedling recruitment from the seed bank, stimulating post-fire seed germination. Cerrado species, mainly graminoid and forb species, germinated more after...
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RT @IanScoones: Why the informal sector drives economic growth in #Zimbabwe. And why #agriculture is central. A new report explains. https:….
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I was pointed to an intriguing World Bank report recently – Creating markets in Zimbabwe: Mobilizing the private sector in support of economic transformation – that came out earlier this year. It i…
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RT @dr_asadnaveed: Periodic reminder: If want to write a research paper this weekend, save this mini-guide🔽. All the best in your endeavor….
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