Climate change promotes transitions to tall evergreen vegetation in tropical Asia

30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%

(2020) Lee Hannah et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Higher than expected CO 2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations

(2020) Vanessa Haverd et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

An operational definition of the biome for global change research

(2020) Timo Conradi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biome diversity in South Asia - How can we improve vegetation models to understand global change impact at regional level?

(2019) Dushyant Kumar et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plant phenology and global climate change: current progresses and challenges

(2019) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Grazing and aridity reduce perennial grass abundance in semi-arid rangelands – Insights from a trait-based dynamic vegetation model

(2019) Mirjam Pfeiffer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization

(2019) Yongwen Liu et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

(2019) William J. Bond et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Misinterpretation of Asian savannas as degraded forest can mislead management and conservation policy under climate change

(2019) Dushyant Kumar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Vegetation structural change since 1981 significantly enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink

(2019) Jing M. Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants

(2019) Wuu Kuang Soh et al.   Science Advances

Large-scale prerain vegetation green-up across Africa

(2018) Tracy Adole et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biome: evolution of a crucial ecological and biogeographical concept

(2018) Ladislav Mucina   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How Does Climate Change Influence the Economic Value of Ecosystem Services in Savanna Rangelands?

(2018) Simon Scheiter et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

(2017) Alexander Popp et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Climate-biomes, pedo-biomes or pyro-biomes: which world view explains the tropical forest-savanna boundary in South America?

(2017) Liam Langan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assessment of CMIP5 historical simulations of rainfall over Southeast Asia

(2017) Srivatsan V Raghavan et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

(2017) Zhenzhong Zeng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Geographical and climatic gradients of evergreen versus deciduous broad-leaved tree species in subtropical China: Implications for the definition of the mixed forest

(2017) Jielin Ge et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Understanding the drivers of Southeast Asian biodiversity loss

(2017) Alice C. Hughes   Ecosphere

Seasonal and interannual changes in vegetation activity of tropical forests in Southeast Asia

(2016) Yuan Zhang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Ecosystem management can mitigate vegetation shifts induced by climate change in West Africa

(2016) Simon Scheiter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A comparative assessment of the financial costs and carbon benefits of REDD+ strategies in Southeast Asia

(2016) Victoria Graham et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Defining functional biomes and monitoring their change globally

(2016) Steven I. Higgins et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

(2016) Nicola Stevens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts

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

Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future

(2016) Jayashree Ratnam et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The future distribution of the savannah biome: model-based and biogeographic contingency

(2016) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect

(2016) C. Terrer et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

(2016) Matthias Schleuning et al.   Nature Communications

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

(2015) Christian Körner   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Dry forest community types and their predicted distribution based on a habitat model for the central dry zone of Myanmar

(2015) Wei Phyo Oo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Why do we lose protected areas? Factors influencing protected area downgrading, downsizing and degazettement in the tropics and subtropics

(2015) William S. Symes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

(2015) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology

(2015) Robert Buitenwerf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Future of African terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems under anthropogenic climate change

(2015) Guy F. Midgley et al.   Nature Climate Change

Modelling CO2 Impacts on Forest Productivity

(2015) Thomas Hickler et al.   Current Forestry Reports

Predicting the Effects of Woody Encroachment on Mammal Communities, Grazing Biomass and Fire Frequency in African Savannas

(2015) Izak P. J. Smit et al.   PLoS One

Future changes of the terrestrial ecosystem based on a dynamic vegetation model driven with RCP8.5 climate projections from 19 GCMs

(2014) Miao Yu et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

(2014) Mao-Ning Tuanmu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate change and long-term fire management impacts on Australian savannas

(2014) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interannual climate variability and population density thresholds can have a substantial impact on simulated tree species’ migration

(2013) Julia E.M.S. Nabel et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Coupling a physiological grazer population model with a generalized model for vegetation dynamics

(2013) Adrian Pachzelt et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

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The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI–MIP): Project framework

(2013) Lila Warszawski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Will plant movements keep up with climate change?

(2013) Richard T. Corlett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Representation of natural and anthropogenic land cover change in MPI-ESM

(2013) C. H. Reick et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Reconstructing the history of introduction and spread of the invasive species, Lantana, at three spatial scales in India

(2012) Ramesh Kannan et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Effect of plant dynamic processes on African vegetation responses to climate change: Analysis using the spatially explicit individual-based dynamic global vegetation model (SEIB-DGVM)

(2012) Hisashi Sato et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

(2011) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

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

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

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

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Community and ecosystem responses to recent climate change

(2010) G. R. Walther   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impact of climate change on Indian forests: a dynamic vegetation modeling approach

(2010) Rajiv K. Chaturvedi et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

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

Seed Dispersal Distances and Plant Migration Potential in Tropical East Asia

(2009) Richard T. Corlett   BIOTROPICA

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

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

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

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE