Frost maintains forests and grasslands as alternate states in a montane tropical forest–grassland mosaic; but alien tree invasion and warming can disrupt this balance

‘Foresting’ the grassland: Historical management legacies in forest-grassland mosaics in southern India, and lessons for the conservation of tropical grassy biomes

(2018) Atul Arvind Joshi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rare frost events reinforce tropical savanna-forest boundaries

(2018) William A. Hoffmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

On the relationship between fire regime and vegetation structure in the tropics

(2018) Elmar M. Veenendaal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Invasion compounds an ecosystem-wide loss to afforestation in the tropical grasslands of the Shola Sky Islands

(2018) M. Arasumani et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts

(2016) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

(2015) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Topographic and Bioclimatic Determinants of the Occurrence of Forest and Grassland in Tropical Montane Forest-Grassland Mosaics of the Western Ghats, India

(2015) Arundhati Das et al.   PLoS One

Feedbacks between vegetation and disturbance processes promote long-term persistence of forest–grassland mosaics in south Brazil

(2014) Carolina Casagrande Blanco et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

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

Temperate mountain grasslands: a climate-herbivore hypothesis for origins and persistence

(2013) Peter D. Weigl et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna–forest transition

(2013) Vinícius de L. Dantas et al.   ECOLOGY

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

The origin of grassy balds in the Bunya Mountains, southeastern Queensland, Australia

(2012) Silvie Moravek et al.   HOLOCENE

Human used upper montane ecosystem in the Horton Plains, central Sri Lanka – a link to Lateglacial and early Holocene climate and environmental changes

(2012) Rathnasiri Premathilake   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Exotic shrub invasion in a montane grassland: the role of fire as a potential restoration tool

(2011) Madhusudan P. Srinivasan   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

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

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

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

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

Changes in the plant community of a Brazilian grassland savannah after 22 years of invasion byPinus elliottiiEngelm

(2011) Rodolfo C.R. de Abreu et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

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

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

Episodic severe damage to canopy trees by elephants: interactions with fire, frost and rain

(2009) Jonas Chafota et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Effects of multiple fires on tree invasion in montane grasslands

(2009) Russell Fairfax et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

CONSTRAINTS ON TREE SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT IN MONTANE GRASSLANDS OF THE VALLES CALDERA, NEW MEXICO

(2008) Jonathan D. Coop et al.   ECOLOGY

Araucaria forest expansion on grassland in the southern Brazilian highlands as revealed by 14C and δ13C studies

(2008) Alexander Dümig et al.   GEODERMA

The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4grassy biomes

(2008) William J. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY