Increasing atmospheric CO2overrides the historical legacy of multiple stable biome states in Africa

Increased susceptibility to drought-induced mortality in Sequoia sempervirens (Cupressaceae) trees under Cenozoic atmospheric carbon dioxide starvation

(2013) Joe Quirk et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Which traits determine shifts in the abundance of tree species in a fire-prone savanna?

(2013) Steven I. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses

(2013) D. V. Silverio et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating Theoretical Climate and Fire Effects on Savanna and Forest Systems

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Cascading biodiversity and functional consequences of a global change-induced biome switch

(2012) Catherine L. Parr et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Thresholds for boreal biome transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How many elephants can you fit into a conservation area

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   Conservation Letters

Fuels or microclimate? Understanding the drivers of fire feedbacks at savanna-forest boundaries

(2011) WILLIAM A. HOFFMANN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Ecological sensitivity: a biospheric view of climate change

(2011) Jon C. Bergengren et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2011) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Increased tree densities in South African savannas: >50 years of data suggests CO2 as a driver

(2011) R. Buitenwerf et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?

(2011) Jayashree Ratnam et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Abrupt shifts in African savanna tree cover along a climatic gradient

(2011) Charly Favier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age

(2011) I. C. Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The stability of African savannas: insights from the indirect estimation of the parameters of a dynamic model

(2010) Steven I. Higgins et al.   ECOLOGY

Growth responses of African savanna trees implicate atmospheric [CO2] as a driver of past and current changes in savanna tree cover

(2009) BARNEY S. KGOPE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Measuring Woody Encroachment along a Forest–Savanna Boundary in Central Africa

(2009) E. T. A. Mitchard et al.   Earth Interactions

Thicket expansion in a South African savanna under divergent land use: local vs. global drivers?

(2009) BENJAMIN J. WIGLEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2content for regional biogeochemistry, biogeography and ecosystem services across East Africa

(2009) RUTH M. DOHERTY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses

(2009) C. P. Osborne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of climate change on the vegetation of Africa: an adaptive dynamic vegetation modelling approach

(2008) SIMON SCHEITER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Physically motivated empirical models for the spread and intensity of grass fires

(2008) Steven I. Higgins et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE