Vegetation, fire and soil feedbacks of dynamic boundaries between rainforest, savanna and grassland

Carbon loss from planned fires in southeastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests

(2015) Liubov Volkova et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Post-fire resprouting strategies of rainforest and savanna saplings along the rainforest–savanna boundary in the Australian monsoon tropics

(2015) Stefania Ondei et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Flammability of litter sampled according to two different methods: comparison of results in laboratory experiments

(2014) Anne Ganteaume et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Aborigine-managed forest, savanna and grassland: biome switching in montane eastern Australia

(2014) Don W. Butler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Comparing bark thickness: testing methods with bark-stem data from two South African fire-prone biomes

(2014) Gareth P. Hempson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Using a rainforest-flame forest mosaic to test the hypothesis that leaf and litter fuel flammability is under natural selection

(2014) Peter J. Clarke et al.   OECOLOGIA

Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: a savanna/forest contrast

(2013) Michael J. Lawes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

(2013) Mireia Torello-Raventos et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

A Broad Approach to Abrupt Boundaries: Looking Beyond the Boundary at Soil Attributes within and Across Tropical Vegetation Types

(2013) Laura Warman et al.   PLoS One

Bark flammability as a fire-response trait for subalpine trees

(2013) Thibaut Frejaville et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Fire weather risk differs across rain forest-savanna boundaries in the humid tropics of north-eastern Australia

(2012) JEREMY K. LITTLE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Fire-patterned vegetation and the development of organic soils in the lowland vegetation mosaics of south-west Tasmania

(2011) S. W. Wood et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Mechanisms of Araucaria (Atlantic) Forest Expansion into Southern Brazilian Grasslands

(2011) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Tree architecture and life-history strategies across 200 co-occurring tropical tree species

(2011) Yoshiko Iida et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Distinct roles of savanna and forest tree species in regeneration under fire suppression in a Brazilian savanna

(2011) Erika L. Geiger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

Contributions of woody and herbaceous vegetation to tropical savanna ecosystem productivity: a quasi-global estimate

(2011) J. Lloyd et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

How do small savanna trees avoid stem mortality by fire? The roles of stem diameter, height and bark thickness

(2011) Michael J. Lawes et al.   Ecosphere

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

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Do nutrient-poor soils inhibit development of forests? A nutrient stock analysis

(2010) William J. Bond   PLANT AND SOIL

The effect of fire frequency on local cembra pine populations

(2009) A. Genries et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of multiple fires on tree invasion in montane grasslands

(2009) Russell Fairfax et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

GLOBAL POTENTIAL NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION PREDICTED FROM VEGETATION CLASS, PRECIPITATION, AND TEMPERATURE

(2008) Stephen Del Grosso et al.   ECOLOGY

Laboratory determination of factors influencing successful point ignition in the litter layer of shrubland vegetation

(2008) Matt P. Plucinski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE