“Our simulations capture this dynamic.” Savanna and forest mosaic in the Congo Basin, including recently burned areas. Image courtesy of Microsoft Zoom Earth. The team also looked at a ...

Spring cleanup is underway at the Middlefork Savanna in Lake Forest, where prescribed burns have returned. Saturday’s burn included smoke on the horizon over the nearly 700 acres. Nearby ...

Known as 'savanna-mosaic' -- a mix of dry open land with few trees and patches of dense forest -- the chimpanzees' habitat is very similar to that of our earliest human ancestors and was chosen to ...

The chimpanzees’ environment is what’s known as a savanna-mosaic, which features both open ... spent just as much time in the trees as their forest-dwelling counterparts did.

The "savanna-mosaic" landscape of that region is very similar to that of our early ancestors, consisting of a mix of dry open land and patches of forest. Because chimps are humankind's closest ...

This mosaic of forest types indicates the region’s ecosystems ... while expanses once presumed to have been savanna grassland were more likely seasonally dry forest, which “actually have ...

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