The lack of water makes the savanna a difficult place for tall plants such as trees to grow. Grasses and trees that grow in the savanna have adapted to life with little water and hot temperatures.

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Utah State University scientist and UPR reporter, Ryan Helcoski, explores how carcass sites may become attractive to grazing ...

So in a forest, even soil from open gaps shows the C3 signature because of non-woody C3 plants growing there, while on a savanna, soil from under a C3 tree will show the C4 signature because of ...

Florida biology professor Todd Palmer studied the curious interaction between ants and elephants in one area of the savanna in Kenya where the Acacia are thriving. The plant has a tough time ...

No one should garden in an area without knowing what ecoregion they are in and what geological and meteorological events ...

And if – as researchers assumed — they eat many of the same things, then how do they share the spread of grasses and other plants across the savanna? You'd think this would be pretty easy to ...

To plant crops, farmers have to tear out and burn these roots, which devastates natural seed banks and the savanna’s ability to regenerate. Image by Sarah Sax. “To be able to restore ...