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Tercia Strydom, Eddie S. Riddell, Thomas Rowe, Navashni Govender, Simon A. Lorentz, Pieter A.L. le Roux, Corli Wigley-Coetsee. (2019). The effect of experimental fires on soil hydrology and nutrients in an African savanna .Geoderma 345.114–122

Donaldson JE, Archibald S, Govender N, Pollard D, Luhdo Z, Parr CL. (2017). Journal of Applied Ecology. Ecological engineering through fire-herbivory feedbacks drives the formation of savanna grazing lawns. J 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12956

van Wilgen BW, Fill JM, Govender N, Foxcroft LC (2017) An assessment of the evolution, costs and effectiveness of alien plant control operations in Kruger National Park, South Africa. NeoBiota 35: 35–59. https://doi. org/10.3897/neobiota.35.12391

MELINDA D. SMITH, ALAN K. KNAPP, SCOTT L. COLLINS, DERON E. BURKEPILE, KEVIN P. KIRKMAN,  SALLY E. KOERNER, DAVE I. THOMPSON, JOHN M. BLAIR, CATHERINE E. BURNS, STEPHANIE EBY,  ELISABETH J. FORRESTEL, RICHARD W.S. FYNN, NAVASHNI GOVENDER, NICOLE HAGENAH,  DAVID L. HOOVER, AND KEVIN R. WILCOX. 2016. Shared Drivers but Divergent Ecological Responses: Insights from Long-Term Experiments in Mesic Savanna Grasslands. BioScience. Vol 88. No 8. Pg 666-682

Smit, Izak; Asner, Gregory; Govender, Navashni; Vaughn, Nicholas and Brian van Wilgen. 2016.  An examination of the potential efficacy of high-intensity fires for reversing woody encroachment in savannas .  2016. Journal of Applied Ecology  Vol 53. No 5. Pg 1623- 1633.

Deron, E. Burkepile, Dave, I. Thompson, Richard, W.S. Fynn, Sally, E. Koerner, Stephanie, Eby, Navashni Govender, Nicole, Hagenah, Nathan, P. Lemoine, Katherine, J. Matchett, Kevin, R. Wilcox, Scott, L. Collins, Kevin, P. Kirkman, Alan, K. Knapp, and Melinda, D. Smith, 2015. Fire frequency drives habitat selection by a diverse herbivore guild impacting top-down control of plant communities in an African savanna” Okios

Price, O. F., Pausas, J. G., Govender, N., Flannigan, M., Fernandes, P. M., Brooks, M. L., & Bird, R. B. Global patterns in fire leverage: The response of annual area burnt to previous fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 24(3), 297-306.

Attore, F., Govender, N., Hausman, A., Farcomeni, A., Guillet, A., Scepi, E., Smit, I.P.J. & Vitale, M. (2015). Assessing the effects of management changes and environmental features on the spatio-temporal pattern of fire in an African savannah: Fire spatio-temporal pattern. Journal for Nature Conservation 28: 1-10.

Pellegrini, A. F. A., Hedin, L. O., Staver, A. C. and Govender, N. 2015. Fire alters ecosystem carbon and nutrients but not plant nutrient stoichiometry or composition in tropical savanna.  Ecology, 96(5), 2015, pp. 1275–1285

Trollope, W, van Wilgen, B, Trollope, L, Govender, N and Potgieter, A. 2014. The long-term effect of fire and grazing by wildlife on range condition in moist and arid savannas in the Kruger National Park, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 31 (3), 199-208.   http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tarf20

Zizka, A., Govender, N, Higgins, S.I., 2014. How to tell a shrub from a tree: A life-history perspective from a South African savanna. Austral Ecology. 39 (7), 767-778.

Van Wilgen, B.W, Govender, N, Smit, I.P.J and MacFadyen, S. (2014) The ongoing development of a pragmatic and adaptive fire management policy in a large African savanna protected area. Journal of Environmental Management. 132, pp358 – 368

Burkepile, D.E., Burns, C.E., Tambling, C.J., Amendola, A., Buis, G.M., Govender, N., Nelson, V., Thompson, Zinn, A. D and Smith, M.D. 2013. Habitat selection by large herbivores in a southern African savanna: the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down force. ECOSPHERE, 4(11), 1-19

Koerner, S.R., Burkepile, D.E., Fynn, R.W.S., Burns, C.E., Eby, S., Govender, N., Hagenah, N., Matchett, K.J., Thompson, D.I., Wilcox, K.R., Collins, S.L., Kirkman, K.P., Knapp, A.K. and Smith, M.D. 2013 Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology 95:808–816

Eby, S., Burkepile, D.E., Fynn, R.W.S., Burns, C.E., Govender, N., Hagenah, N., Koerner, S.E., Matchett, K.J., Thompson, D.I., Wilcox, K.R., Collins, S. Kirkman, K.P., Knapp, A.K., and Smith, M.D. 2014. Loss of a single large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia  175:293–303.

Higgins S. I.; Bond, W. J.; Combrink, H., Craine J.M., February E.C., Govender, N., Lannas, K. Moncreiff G. and Trollope W.S.W. (2012) Which traits determine shifts in the abundance of tree species in a fire-prone savanna? Ecology 100, 1400-1410.

Govender, N., Mutanga, O and Ntsala, D. (2012) Veld fire reporting and mapping techniques in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, from 1941 to 2011. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 29(2): 63-73

Venter, F.J. & Govender, N. (2012) A geomorphic and soil description of the long-term fire experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa’, Koedoe 54(1), Art. #1037, 10 pages. http:// dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe. v54i1.1037

Smit, IPJ, Smit, CF, Govender, N, van der Linde, M and MacFadyen, S. (2012) Rainfall, geology and landscape position generate large-scale spatio-temporal fire pattern heterogeneity in an African savanna. Ecography 34: 01 – 13 doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07555.

Knapp, A.K., Hoover, D.L., Blair, J.M., Buis, G., Burkepile, D.E., Chamberlain, A., Collins, S.L., Fynn, R.W.S., Kirkman, K.P., Smith, M.D., Blake, D., Govender, N., O’Neal, P., Schreck, T. and Zinn, A. (2012). A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology 5(4), 357-365. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rts020

Smith, M.D., van Wilgen, B.W., Burns, C.E., Govender, N., Potgieter, A.L.F., Andelman, S., Biggs, H.C., Botha, J. and Trollope, W.S.W. (2012) Long-term effects of fire frequency and season on herbaceous vegetation in savannas of the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Journal of Plant Ecology 6: 71-83

Coetsee, C., Jacobs, S. and Govender, N (2011). An Overview of Nitrogen Cycling in a Semiarid Savanna: Some Implications for Management and Conservation in a Large African Park. Ecosystem Management 49 (2): 387-402 DOI 10.1007/s00267-011-9779-0

Wooster, M. J., Freeborn, P.H., Archibald, S., Oppenheimer, C., Roberts, J., Smith, T.E.L., Govender, N., Burton, M. and Palumbo, I. (2011) Field determination of biomass burning emission ratios and factors via open-path FTIR spectroscopy and fire radiative power assessment: headfire, backfire and residual smouldering combustion in African savannahs. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 11591–11615. www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/11591/2011/ doi:10.5194/acp-11-11591-2011

Archibald, S, Nickless, A., Govender,N., Scholes, R.J. and Lehsten, V. (2010) Climate and the inter-annual variability of fire in southern Africa: a meta-analysis using long-term field data and satellite-derived burnt area data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 568: 1-16

van Wilgen, B.W., Govender, N., Forsyth, G.G and Kraai, T. (2010) Towards adaptive fire management for biodiversity conservation: Experience in South  African National Parks. Koedoe 53 (2). Art. # 982,9 pages. DOI: 10.4102/koedoe.v53i2.982

Smit, I.P.J., Asner, G.P., Govender, N., Kennedy-Bowdoin, T., Knapp, D.E. and Jacobson, J. (2010). Effects of fire on woody vegetation structure in African savanna. Ecological Applications. 20(7), 2010, pp. 1865–1875

Buis, G.M., Blair, J.M., Burkepile, D.E., Burns, C.E., Chamberlain, A.J., Chapman, P.H., Collins, S.L., Fynn, R.W.S., Govender, N., Kirkman, K.P., Smith, M.D. and Knapp, A.K. (2009). Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production in Mesic Savanna Grasslands: An Inter-Hemispheric Comparison. Ecosystems 12 (6): 982-995

van Wilgen, B.W., Govender, N. and MacFadyen, S. (2008). The development and application of new approaches to fire management in the Kruger National Park. Koedoe 50: 22 – 31

Hanan, N.P., Sea, W.B., Dangelmayr, G. and Govender, N. (2008). Do fires in savannas consume woody biomass? A comment on approaches to modeling savanna dynamics. American Naturalist 171 (6): 851 – 856

Groen T., A., Van Langevelde, F., Van De Vijver, C.A.D.M., Govender, N. & Pins, H.H.T  (2008). Soil clay content and fire frequency affect clustering in trees in South African savannas. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 269 – 279

van Wilgen, B.W., Govender, N. and Biggs, H.C. (2007). The contribution of fire research to fire management: a critical review of a long-term experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, International Journal of Wildland Fire 16: 519-530

Higgins, S.I., Bond, W.J., February, E.C., Bronn, A., Euston,-Brown, D.I.W., Enslin, B., Govender, N., Rademan, L.  O’Reagan, S., Potgieter, A.L.F., Scheiter, S., Sowry, R.Trollope, L. and Trollope, W.S.W. (2007). Effect of Four Decades of fire manipulation on woody vegetation structure in savanna, Ecology 88: 1119-1125

Govender, N., Trollope, W.S.W. and van Wilgen, B.W. (2006). The effect of fire season, fire frequency, rainfall and management on fire intensity in savanna vegetation in South Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 748-758

Roy, D.P., Trigg, S.N., Bhima, R., Brockett, B., Dube, O., Frost, P., Govender, N., Landmann, T., Le Roux, J., Lepono, T., Macuacua, J., Mbow, C., Mhwandangara, K., Mosepele, B., Mutanga, O., Neo-Mahupeleng, G., Norman, M., Virgilo, S (2006). The utility of satellite fire product accuracy information – perspectives and recommendations from the southern Africa fire network, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Land  Product Validation Special Issue

Midgley, J.J., Balfour, D. and Govender, N. (2005). Is carry-over of grass biomass between years important in determining savanna fire regimes. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 23: 81-83

van Wilgen, B.W., Govender, N., Biggs, H.C., Ntsala, D and Funda, X.N. (2004). Manipulating savanna fire regimes to meet conservation objectives: Lessons from a large African national park. Conservation Biology 18: 1533-1540

Biggs, R., Biggs, H.C., Dunne, T., Govender, N. and Potgieter, A.L.F. (2003). What is the design of the Experimental Burning Plot (EBP) trial in the Kruger National Park? Koedoe 46: 1-15