Future of African terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems under anthropogenic climate change

Fire effects on vegetation in a grassy dwarf shrubland at a site in the eastern Karoo, South Africa

(2014) Justin CO du Toit et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

Bush encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes

(2014) Tim G O'Connor et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

How to tell a shrub from a tree: A life-history perspective from a South African savanna

(2014) Alexander Zizka et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Completing the FACE of elevated CO2 research

(2014) Alan G. Jones et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

A 50 year study shows grass cover has increased in shrublands of semi-arid South Africa

(2014) Mmoto L. Masubelele et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Suborbital climatic variability and centres of biological diversity in the Cape region of southern Africa

(2014) Brian Huntley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Savanna fire and the origins of the ‘underground forests’ of Africa

(2014) Olivier Maurin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

C4 Photosynthesis Promoted Species Diversification during the Miocene Grassland Expansion

(2014) Elizabeth L. Spriggs et al.   PLoS One

Late Pleistocene European and Late Miocene African accelerations of faunal change in relation to the climate and as a background to human evolution

(2014) Jan van der Made   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Impact of CO2fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments

(2013) Randall J. Donohue et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Investigating potential determinants of the distribution limits of a savanna woody plant:Colophospermum mopane

(2013) Nicola Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

(2013) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vegetation change (1988–2010) in Camdeboo National Park (South Africa), using fixed-point photo monitoring: The role of herbivory and climate

(2013) Mmoto L. Masubelele et al.   KOEDOE

The global NPP dependence on ENSO: La Niña and the extraordinary year of 2011

(2013) A. Bastos et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Top-down determinants of niche structure and adaptation among African Acacias

(2012) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effect of land-cover change on Africa's burnt area

(2012) J.-M. Grégoire et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa

(2012) H. Peter Linder et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic niche evolution and species diversification in the Cape flora, South Africa

(2012) Jan Schnitzler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Plant diversity consequences of a herbivore-driven biome switch from Grassland to Nama-Karoo shrub steppe in South Africa

(2011) Michael C. Rutherford et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Ecological sensitivity: a biospheric view of climate change

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

Bioclimatic Modeling of Southern African Bioregions and Biomes Using Bayesian Networks

(2011) Wisdom M. Dlamini   ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

Environmental and anthropogenic determinants of vegetation distribution across Africa

(2011) Michelle Greve et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Modelling biome shifts and tree cover change for 2050 in West Africa

(2011) Jonathan Heubes et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The savanna-grassland ‘treeline’: why don’t savanna trees occur in upland grasslands?

(2011) Julia L. Wakeling et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

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

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

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological–economic optimization of biodiversity conservation under climate change

(2011) Brendan A. Wintle et al.   Nature Climate Change

Pinning down the land carbon sink

(2011) Michael R. Raupach   Nature Climate Change

Geographic sampling bias in the South African Frog Atlas Project: implications for conservation planning

(2010) Emily A. Botts et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

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

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

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Woody plants and the prediction of climate-change impacts on bird diversity

(2010) W. D. Kissling et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is the lack of leguminous savanna trees in grasslands of South Africa related to nutritional constraints?

(2010) Julia L. Wakeling et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Potential responses of terrestrial biodiversity in Southern Africa to anthropogenic climate change

(2010) Guy F. Midgley et al.   Regional Environmental Change

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

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

The impact of shrub encroachment on savanna bird diversity from local to regional scale

(2009) Clélia Sirami et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A Hierarchical Bayesian model of wildfire in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot: Implications of weather variability and global circulation

(2009) Adam M. Wilson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

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

Estimating future ecoregion distributions within the Okavango Delta Wetlands based on hydrological simulations and future climate and development scenarios

(2009) C. Milzow et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Possible impacts of 21st century climate on vegetation in Central and West Africa

(2008) Christine Delire et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

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

Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

(2008) Cynthia Rosenzweig et al.   NATURE