Leaf silica concentration in Serengeti grasses increases with watering but not clipping: insights from a common garden study and literature review

Epidermal Patterning and Silica Phytoliths in Grasses: An Evolutionary History

(2014) Paula J. Rudall et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Functional attributes of savanna soils: contrasting effects of tree canopies and herbivores on bulk density, nutrients and moisture dynamics

(2014) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A novel mechanism for grazing lawn formation: large herbivore-induced modification of the plant-soil water balance

(2014) Michiel P. Veldhuis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fire and Nitrogen Addition Increase Forage Quality of Aristida purpurea

(2014) N.A. Dufek et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Distinct Physiological Responses Underlie Defoliation Tolerance in African Lawn and Bunch Grasses

(2013) T. Michael Anderson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Nitrogen enrichment increases net silica accumulation in a temperate salt marsh

(2013) J. C. Carey et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Decoupling the spread of grasslands from the evolution of grazer-type herbivores in South America

(2013) Caroline A.E. Strömberg et al.   Nature Communications

Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics

(2012) Jennifer J. H. Reynolds et al.   OECOLOGIA

More than herbivory: levels of silica-based defences in grasses vary with plant species, genotype and location

(2012) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   OIKOS

Tradeoffs between foliar silicon and carbon-based defences: evidence from vegetation communities of contrasting soil types

(2012) Julia Cooke et al.   OIKOS

Complex Dental Structure and Wear Biomechanics in Hadrosaurid Dinosaurs

(2012) G. M. Erickson et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

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

Lithologic controls on biogenic silica cycling in South African savanna ecosystems

(2011) Susan E. Melzer et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Silicon availability changes structural carbon ratio and phenol content of grasses

(2011) Jörg Schaller et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Silicon concentration and leaf longevity: is silicon a player in the leaf dry mass spectrum?

(2011) Julia Cooke et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trait-environment relations for dominant grasses in South African mesic grassland support a general leaf economic model

(2011) Richard Fynn et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Seed germination cues and the importance of the soil seed bank across an environmental gradient in the Serengeti

(2011) T. Michael Anderson et al.   OIKOS

In situ biogenic silica variations in the invasive salt marsh plant, Spartina alterniflora: A possible link with environmental stress

(2011) Jérémy Querné et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Silicification of the adaxial epidermis of leaves of a panicoid grass in relation to leaf position and section and environmental conditions

(2011) M. Fernández Honaine et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Fundamental changes in the activity of the natrocarbonatite volcano Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania

(2010) Jörg Keller et al.   BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY

Simple, Robust Method for Quantifying Silicon in Plant Tissue

(2010) Joseph E. Kraska et al.   COMMUNICATIONS IN SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT ANALYSIS

Landscape-scale analyses suggest both nutrient and antipredator advantages to Serengeti herbivore hotspots

(2010) T. Michael Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY

The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis

(2010) María-José Endara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Silicon enhances growth independent of silica deposition in a low-silica rice mutant, lsi1

(2010) Mami Isa et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Another one bites the dust: faecal silica levels in large herbivores correlate with high-crowned teeth

(2010) J. Hummel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is plant ecology more siliceous than we realise?

(2010) Julia Cooke et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Opposing Rainfall and Plant Nutritional Gradients Best Explain the Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems

(2009) Susan E. Melzer et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Phosphorus reserves increase grass regrowth after defoliation

(2009) Mariano Oyarzabal et al.   OECOLOGIA

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

Physical defences wear you down: progressive and irreversible impacts of silica on insect herbivores

(2008) Fergus P. Massey et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Growth and Nutrient Use in Four Grasses Under Drought Stress as Mediated by Silicon Fertilizers

(2008) A. Egrinya Eneji et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION

Identification of Maize Silicon Influx Transporters

(2008) N. Mitani et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Hypsodonty in ungulates: an adaptation for grass consumption or for foraging in open habitat?

(2007) M. Mendoza et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY