Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia

Illuminating the dawn of pastoralism: Evaluating the record of European explorers to inform landscape change

(2013) J.L. Silcock et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Orbital-scale climate forcing of grassland burning in southern Africa

(2013) A.-L. Daniau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new population curve for prehistoric Australia

(2013) A. N. Williams   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Does long-term fire exclusion in an Australian tropical savanna result in a biome shift? A test using the reintroduction of fire

(2012) KENNETH SCOTT et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

(2012) Brett P. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global nutrient limitation in terrestrial vegetation

(2012) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The influence of prescribed fire on the extent of wildfire in savanna landscapes of western Arnhem Land, Australia

(2012) Owen F. Price et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests

(2012) D. V. Spracklen et al.   NATURE

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Annual vegetation burns across the northern savanna region of Ghana: period of occurrence, area burns, nutrient losses and emissions

(2012) Joseph X. Kugbe et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

(2012) G. W. Prescott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka

(2012) F. Demeter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia's spinifex grasslands

(2012) R. Bliege Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans

(2012) A. Eriksson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Man and megafauna in Tasmania: closing the gap

(2012) Richard Gillespie et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Quantifying the abundance and stable isotope composition of pyrogenic carbon using hydrogen pyrolysis

(2012) Christopher M. Wurster et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

The Aftermath of Megafaunal Extinction: Ecosystem Transformation in Pleistocene Australia

(2012) S. Rule et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

(2011) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes

(2011) Tim J. Cohen et al.   GEOLOGY

Did aboriginal vegetation burning impact on the Australian summer monsoon?

(2011) Michael Notaro et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Did central Australian megafaunal extinction coincide with abrupt ecosystem collapse or gradual climate change?

(2011) Brett P. Murphy et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

(2011) Alan N. Williams   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?

(2011) Catherine E. M. Nano et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

(2011) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstructing the dynamics of ancient human populations from radiocarbon dates: 10 000 years of population growth in Australia

(2011) C. N. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Revisiting the late Pleistocene mammal extinction record at Tight Entrance Cave, southwestern Australia

(2011) J. Tyler Faith et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Dating megafaunal extinction on the Pleistocene Darling Downs, eastern Australia: the promise and pitfalls of dating as a test of extinction hypotheses

(2011) Gilbert J. Price et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Contributions of woody and herbaceous vegetation to tropical savanna ecosystem productivity: a quasi-global estimate

(2011) J. Lloyd et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Seasonal variations in soil water in two woodland savannas of central Brazil with different fire histories

(2011) C. A. Quesada et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Links between native forest and climate in Australia

(2011) Ravinesh C. Deo   Weather

Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary

(2011) Michael D. Crisp et al.   Nature Communications

Humid tropical rain forest has expanded into eucalypt forest and savanna over the last 50 years

(2011) David Y. P. Tng et al.   Ecology and Evolution

TURNER REVIEW No. 19. Savanna woody plant dynamics: the role of fire and herbivory, separately and synergistically

(2010) Jeremy J. Midgley et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Managing the matrix: decadal responses of eucalypt-dominated savanna to ambient fire regimes

(2010) Jeremy Russell-Smith et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Using generalized autoregressive error models to understand fire-vegetation-soil feedbacks in a mulga-spinifex landscape mosaic

(2010) Brett P. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Experimental evidence that fire causes a tree recruitment bottleneck in an Australian tropical savanna

(2010) Lynda D. Prior et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Has global environmental change caused monsoon rainforests to expand in the Australian monsoon tropics?

(2010) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Are the eucalypt and non-eucalypt components of Australian tropical savannas independent?

(2010) M. J. Lawes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Isotopes in pyrogenic carbon: A review

(2010) Michael I. Bird et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia

(2010) G. J. Prideaux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Turning back the clock on the extinction of megafauna in Australia

(2010) Richard G. Roberts et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

(2010) S.D. Mooney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago

(2010) G. R. Summerhayes et al.   SCIENCE

How Forests Attract Rain: An Examination of a New Hypothesis

(2009) Douglas Sheil et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Browsing and fire interact to suppress tree density in an African savanna

(2009) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate-related trends in Australian vegetation cover as inferred from satellite observations, 1981-2006

(2009) RANDALL J. DONOHUE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Which of these continents is not like the other? Comparisons of tropical savanna systems: key questions and challenges

(2009) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannas

(2009) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo

(2009) Gavin J. Prideaux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna

(2009) C.N. Johnson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ESR and U-series analyses of faunal material from Cuddie Springs, NSW, Australia: implications for the timing of the extinction of the Australian megafauna

(2009) Rainer Grün et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Megafauna demography and late Quaternary climatic change in Australia: A predisposition to extinction

(2008) STEVE WEBB   BOREAS

Chronological overlap between humans and megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea): A review of the evidence

(2008) Judith Field et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Environmental and demographic correlates of tree recruitment and mortality in north Australian savannas

(2008) Lynda D. Prior et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Human—environment interactions in Australian drylands: exploratory time-series analysis of archaeological records

(2008) M.A. Smith et al.   HOLOCENE

Big fires and their ecological impacts in Australian savannas: size and frequency matters

(2008) Cameron P. Yates et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

A 14C age calibration curve for the last 60 ka: the Greenland-Hulu U/Th timescale and its impact on understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Eurasia

(2008) Bernhard Weninger et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from tropical sequences: results from the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, and their broader implications

(2008) Thomas F. G. Higham et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Alternative stable states in Australia’s Wet Tropics: a theoretical framework for the field data and a field-case for the theory

(2008) Laura Warman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction

(2008) C. S. M. Turney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The "fire stick farming" hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

(2008) R. Bliege Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory

(2007) Q. D. Atkinson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION