Shifts in Köppen-Geiger climate zones over southern Africa in relation to key global temperature goals

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

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

(2013) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate Change and Potato Production in Contrasting South African Agro-ecosystems 1. Effects on Land and Water Use Efficiencies

(2013) A. J. Haverkort et al.   POTATO RESEARCH

Projected changes in tropical cyclone climatology and landfall in the Southwest Indian Ocean region under enhanced anthropogenic forcing

(2012) Johan Malherbe et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

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

High-resolution model-projected changes in mid-tropospheric closed-lows and extreme rainfall events over southern Africa

(2012) C. J. Engelbrecht et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

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

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

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

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

Multi-scale climate modelling over Southern Africa using a variable-resolution global model

(2011) FA Engelbrecht et al.   WATER SA

Fire management in Mediterranean-climate shrublands: a case study from the Cape fynbos, South Africa

(2010) Brian W. Van Wilgen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Observed and projected climate shifts 1901-2100 depicted by world maps of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification

(2010) Franz Rubel et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa in a 4 C+ world

(2010) P. K. Thornton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

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

On the need for bias correction of regional climate change projections of temperature and precipitation

(2008) Jens H. Christensen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Increased aridity in the Mediterranean region under greenhouse gas forcing estimated from high resolution simulations with a regional climate model

(2008) Xuejie Gao et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Dynamics of the Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model projected climate-change signal over southern Africa

(2008) F. A. Engelbrecht et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

(2008) Dieter Lüthi et al.   NATURE